http://www.smartgrowthforconservatives.com/2014/09/04/a-better-route/ Fiscal and market perspectives on transportation and land use Sat, 06 Jun 2015 16:24:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.6 http://www.smartgrowthforconservatives.com/2014/09/04/a-better-route/#comment-1955 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 14:52:29 +0000 http://www.smartgrowthforconservatives.com/?p=1656#comment-1955 I whole-heartedly agree. If you want to make mass transit more affordable, stop subsidizing sprawl. But changing land use patterns is a generation’s work. Revolutionizing mass transit should take only a few years.

]]> http://www.smartgrowthforconservatives.com/2014/09/04/a-better-route/#comment-1954 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 14:46:34 +0000 http://www.smartgrowthforconservatives.com/?p=1656#comment-1954 An article of two halves. From this I get it that subsidized buses are for the poor and a tech-and-market driven solution is for the rest.
Greater RVA is a fine example of the Great American Dream meeting small government. Parochial thinking over at least 60 years means the counties and the city have given birth to a large, sprawling and ultimately ugly baby that is almost beyond mass transit in it’s current form. Extending routes to useful nodes is needed, and some of them are beyond the current reach of GRTC; Short Pump being the prime example and it happens to be in Henrico. It would be hard to present a case not to run buses there, but they don’t go.

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