This interesting tidbit about the Long Range Transit Plan recently
came over the "bikies" email list:
At 3:13 PM -0500 7/16/08, Robbie Webber wrote:
Thought some might want to take a look at the report:
http://legistar.cityofmadison.com/attachments/92bfe5a2-8256-42b9-a539-cc89592a279b.pdf
If you want to see all the material associated with this report:
surveys results, comments received, information on Bus Rapid Transit,
etc, those documents can be accessed from here:
http://legistar.cityofmadison.com/detailreport/matter.aspx?key=12252
Note that the report denies that there is a context--an
environment--in which transit operates.
The city's current development strategies militate against transit.
I brought up this issue in two written comments and public
presentations before the TPC and the Long Range Transit Committee. I
have also brought this up, quite pointedly, to the transit General
Manager. I can't get a response from him. He seems to be a nice guy,
but he clams up whenever I ask him why transit-friendly development
was not even mentioned in the plan.
Without *urban* development, transit will fail. The city's obsession
with anti-walking environments (walking being a necessary precursor
to taking the bus) in all new developments will doom transit in all
but our oldest neighborhoods.
Maybe our alders could explain why the city engineer gets to mandate
car-oriented environments while our transit manager cannot get
transit-oriented development.
-Mike
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