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“Effective Sunday, June 14, 2009, more than 60 bus routes will be adjusted” (Miami-Dade transit)
- Lee County is trying to spend its stimulus money as fast as possible. In what seems to be a pattern across the country, transit is losing out to roads mostly because of faulty federal funding rules.
- Congress has agreed to allow transit agencies to use up to 10% of their stimulus funds on operations.
- For those who think turning the busway into a highway is a good idea: New rail lines can spur investment and economic growth. Duh.
- The Herald has a new ‘blog aggregator’ that features local bloggers. Check it out.
- Local Country Club residents protest park and ride lot: “…the lot will cause a dangerous amount of traffic, and resident Alan Rigerman. ”If this is built, there will be deaths.” Lol. So much for community participation.
- Track City of Miami Stimulus spending!
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If the park and ride is not built, Rigerman can look forward to a huge wedgie.
On a less serious note, changing bus routes needs to stop. How are developers supposed to build transit-oriented buildings, say an office building with reduced parking, when no one knows where transit will be oriented 6 months from now? How are people supposed to move to transit-served areas, accept jobs they can get to by bus, maybe even sell their car, when that reality can fall apart overnight? We need FIXED RAILS so people can INVEST in transit-oriented lives and developers can INVEST in real urban buildings. If the government is not willing to provide PREDICTABILITY, how can anyone expect private behavior to change?
The short answer, as you know, is that they can’t.
Exactly. Now think of that argument as it relates to the busway. With the proposed hot lanes converting the busway into a highway, any TOD’s in the pipeline are not going to have much of a chance of survival. Too bad.