In some parts of the U.S.—like New York City—public transportation can serve your every need. That’s not true is many other areas, where a car is necessary to get around efficiently. But while the majority of Americans have access either to a vehicle or to public transit, there are plenty of people who have neither. If public transit is going to work as a viable alternative to cars, it needs to better serve these people.
A new Brookings Institute report that looks at transit access and zero-vehicle households comes up with some surprising findings: 700,000 zero-vehicle households in the 100 biggest metro areas in the U.S. lack any access to public transportation, and 7.5 million households in those metro areas don’t have access to a private vehicle (though they can reach public transit options). (Fast Company)
The decentralization of job centers is the worst thing that happened in the 20th century that rarely gets mentioned. Expecting transit service to work without density is unrealistic. We need to get back to clustering industries. Transit service has been starved somewhat, true, but we can’t just run more transit routes and solve everything - the problem is that the way we’ve used land over the past five decades gave little consideration to efficient transit service. We’re too spread out, and transit service needs to be efficient in order to be politically sustainable. Right?
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