Moving People

I've become a person who believes that dedicating our energy into expanding and improving the bus system is the proper answer. We've seen that rail based construction projects are extremely expensive, usually wind up destroying some businesses, can disrupt communities, and rarely are any faster at getting from point A to point B than the car it often competes with. This is particularly true of street level light rail.

Instead of throwing money at building rail lines that can't be moved to adapt to changing demographics, I much prefer increasing service, increasing 'bus only' and/or high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes, and increasing express bus lines.

We learned in Seattle that a thousand little adjustments to traffic flow can make a huge difference in reducing congestions. We already have streets, we already have buses (though not enough).

Here is an article from 2003, written on behalf of the Independence Institute. I don't endorse this group, and am not a member. I offer the article only because it provides a clear summary of my 'pro-bus' perspective. They seem a little nutty, but I have great sympathy for their libertarian perspective.