Friday, July 18, 2014

What our transportation agencies, city officials, and planners ought to be doing instead . . .


. . . Of building more of the same.  Since Cherriots is going broke and cutting services, the time is now -- we need to build a supple, augmented, 24/7 system of fixed-route buses integrated with tools that support walking, biking, carpooling, jitneys, and shared use of private motor vehicles.

Over in Helsinki, Finland, the local government has announced a bold transportation venture that every Sightline employee can cheer. By 2025, the government aims to integrate shared and public transit into a single network, and the end goal would be to make car-ownership wholly unnecessary.

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