Monday, July 20, 2009
Reconstructing Transportation
I know many of you will be glad to hear that my much-anticipated essay on transportation policy is finally available! The July issue of Technology and Culture has been released. It coincides with efforts to hammer out the terms of surface transportation legislation. Brace yourself for the same old battles between modes over the next two months. My hope is that if enough people start thinking about how modes are really an artificial and inadequate categorization of transportation they might start to think about systems rooted local and regional patterns of movement--and to develop policy to support efficient and effective multi-modal systems.
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Unfortunately, some local transit systems are set up only to focus on single modes, and limited scope. I'm thinking in particular of the Bay Area, where BART operates the rapid transit service, and a variety of other agencies run local and express bus services throughout the various local counties, together with a few multi-county authorities for commuter rail (Caltrain, ACE, and Capitol Corridor). It's a right mess, and even when the MTC does direct toll money at transit, it's a big question as to which particular kind of transit it ends up going to.
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