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Harrison Square vote
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City Council Meeting Tuesday
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Citilink a vital public function
Underfunding remedy sought
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Making bus service sexy
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On Bicyclists
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SUV owners keep on truckin’ despite gas prices
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Rural U.S. Takes Worst Hit as Gas Tops $4 Average
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Seniors Stranded in Cul-De-Sacs
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A Mission to Make Suburbs, Well, More Like the City
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Just as public transport becomes more tempting to use, they cut back service for the same reason people want to ride? Too many irony issues to handle.
Adam -
There’s not enough money to sustain current barely-adequate levels of public transportation, let alone expand service, but there’s money to improve roads to make it easier for people to drive their cars to frivolous retail sprawl that continues to be built.
As long as we keep treating buses as a second class of transportation, they will remain second class.
Bingo Luke. Hit the nail on the head. If you spend the money building a bus infrastructure (dedicated bus lanes, bus terminals, route improvements) instead of widening roads in the suburbs, the bus becomes a desirable option and people build ‘urban centers’ where residential is built around commercial centers with radial bus patterns.
Cars will always exist, but no need to design to the lowest common denominator.