Post by Steven Dale
We spend too much time arguing about the type of public transit our cities should implement. It’s such a waste of time, energy and resources. Imagine what we could accomplish if we devoted just a fraction of that energy to working together and accepting the idea that all transit technologies have a place.
Somewhere along the line transit advocacy stopped being about multi-modal solutions and became instead about technology-specific solutions. For the last 20 years the conversation has stopped being about why transit is good and has instead become about why buses, gondolas and light rail are good – to the exclusion of all others.
This isn’t a zero sum game, folks. No transit technology is going to win at the expense of all others. The world’s too big, cities too enormous, and too many people needing to get from Point A to Point B.
You’re never going to see a city exclusively with LRT, just as you’re never going to see a city exclusively with BRT, CPT or any other three letter acronym.
We’ve gotta work together.
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