Poor Transit Plans
Six reasons to reject Washington state transportation packages Seattle Times, Opinion, May 22, 2015, via Sightline.
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Number six:
"They ignore today’s transportation reality. The way we get around is changing. Total driving miles on state roads have barely budged for more than a decade. More and more Washingtonians are substituting “virtual” travel for some trips, while others are choosing to get around on transit, on foot or on bikes. The Internet has unleashed new transportation services — from next-generation taxi services to real-time traffic information — that lessen the need for private cars and new highway lanes. Meanwhile, America’s young people have grown less interested in cars than previous generations.
But both the House and Senate transportation packages look backward rather than forward. They lock the state into a long-term bet on transportation strategies that might have made sense in the 1950s but ignores the demographic and technological changes under way now in the 21st century."
LS Comment: Doesn't that sound like the attitude of our BC Minister of Transport, who has just said that a $100 million exchange on the TC1 at MacKenzie would fix our traffic congestion problem?