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Thursday, July 25, 2013

THE PRESSING NEED FOR LIGHT RAIL

It's easy to see why central planners love rail; it's another tool to use to dictate how people should live and where they should go. Of course, the problem is that the grand designs fail in most cases to consider how people want to live - and where they need to go. And even NPR is starting to get it:
Today, only 5 percent of workers take public transportation, down from 11 percent in 1960; only 4 percent walk to work, down from 7 percent in 1960.
Cannibalize bus services in an effort to force people onto rail, and watch the transit numbers slide. It's the hot trend.
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