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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: DMaA who wrote (16106)3/23/2000 4:51:00 PM
From: Brian P.  Read Replies (5) of 769667
 
Land-consumptive sprawl vs. close-by communities:

<<Like to go back to the days when grand rail systems laced the nation? Want to reinstate the Big Red Cars, the railroads, the web of street-cars and buses, the many modes of movement crippled by preferential treatment given to the car? Can you go home again? Back to the days when book-toting schoolchildren and package-laden parents had mobility without automobility? Can we resurrect and reinforce mass transit?

[There is] a fact of human movement that has defined the success (or lack thereof) of public transportation in America: the fact that an average rider will walk no more than eight to ten minutes to his or her transit stop. This truism of transportation and humanity means that collecting enough riders to fill the trolley or bus depends on collecting passengers who live nearby. It means shaping surroundings close or coaxing people to walk or bicycle. Land consumptive sprawl spreads people. It supports only the land-consuming private car. Conversely, more close-by communities bring more people closer to transit, hence more riders.....Land use is the issue. >>[1]

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[1] Jane Holtz Kay, Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take it Back (New York: Random House, 1997), pp. 303-4
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