he Brookings Institution recently published a policy brief calling for, big surprise, drastic changes. Brooking’s researchers state that incremental changes to how we manage problems, funds, designs, and just about every other aspect of our transportation system devised in the 1950s must be thrown out. We need to,
“replace it with one that reflects the distinctive realities [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘mass transit’
July 11, 2008
Brookings transportation policy brief calls for unified answer to unified problem
July 2, 2008
Central Indiana’s interurban transit system
Alright, so the transportation woes in my proverbial backyard are still lingering in my head. My family in Dunkirk informed me recently that Central Indiana’s mass transit problems were solved about a hundred years. Yes, that’s right. Hayseed Indianapolis and its surrounding burgs were all connected via a reliable regional transit system, the Central Indiana Interurban. In fact, the [...]
July 2, 2008
the “Last Mile” – Proper regional transit planning
If recent predictions of a mass exodus from the automobile are true, then Indianapolis, and many of its peers are in trouble. Yes, this goes without saying, but the suburban doughnut around Indianapolis (and many others) will experience a drastic, and painful, transformation regardless if there is one or even a dozen commuter rails creating a spoke [...]
