Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit
Steven Higashideamazon.com
Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit
These findings align with a recent Environmental Protection Agency study that found, state by state, an inverse relationship between vehicle travel and productivity: the more miles that people in a given state drive, the weaker it performs economically.● Apparently, the data are beginning to support the city planners’ bold contention that time wast
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Simply to suggest so many nondrivers exist forces a conversation about how our mobility needs are discounted as unimportant, secondary to the “real” people who can drive where they need to go. It’s the conversation we need to be having, but it is a challenging conversation for everyone who is benefiting from the status quo.
Anna Zivarts • Op-Ed: Recognizing Nondrivers Can Spur a Revolution in Transportation and Housing - The Urbanist
When the effort to travel to transit seems daunting because of distance or fear of danger, people will default to the easier decision to drive. The physical environment goes hand in hand with people’s perceptions of the difficulty of tasks. Research shows people are more willing to walk and use transit when streets are more connected, block lengths
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Commuter transportation leads to negative returns when it admits, anywhere in the system, speeds much above those reached on a bicycle. Once the barrier of bicycle velocity is broken at any point in the system, the total per capita monthly time spent at the service of the travel industry increases.
Ivan Illich • Tools for Conviviality
In another poll, the devoutly nonideological Consumer Preference Survey, respondents favored public transportation over road building as a solution to congestion by almost three to one.● The actual funding allocation currently favors roads four to one over transit,9 so it would seem that a major correction is in order.