The nexus between transportation and land use.

Month: February 2012

House Plan Would End Dedicated Transit Funding, Overturn 30 Years of Transportation Policy

Sorry to have to start this blog on a bad note, but our friends in the U.S. House of Representatives believe that transportation policy should go back to the 1970s.

You know, that era of gas shortages and rampant urban sprawl. Look, there is a reason why the Highway Trust Fund is used to fund transit. It has long been recognized that “if you build it they will come” when it comes to highway building. We’ll never build our way out of congestion and therefore, transit is a vital component of an urban area’s mobility. Forcing everyone to rely on the private automobile is unsustainable, not practical in most of our oldest cities and deeply un-conservative.

 

 

 

Welcome

Welcome to my professional blog, Transport Nexus. Before I explain what I am going to write about on this blog it is helpful if I unpack this name a bit. “Transport” describes public transportation and is particular to Europe and the English-speaking countries outside of North America. I chose “Transport” rather than “public transportation” or “transit” because I like the way that “transport” can be mode neutral in a way that public transportation and transit is not.

English: (How Marlborough Road might have appe...

Here, there or anywhere.

A nexus is a connection or series of connections. Which aptly describes transportation – a way of connecting from one place to another. I am particularly interested in how land use affect how people use transportation as well as how public transportation can be used more efficiently.

I welcome you to my blog and look forward to carrying on this conversation.

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