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The idea that the School District of Philadelphia would spend tens of millions to intensify the city’s traffic violence epidemic is baffling to many of its residents, even those who stand to monetarily benefit from the program.
The transport system requires dedicated lanes, such as elevated platforms, and uses small, diagonal pullouts for loading and unloading.
The most game-changing part of this is not the autonomous vehicles nor the “less of an eyesore” infrastructure, it’s the dedicated lanes. Why can Atlanta dedicate lanes for a pilot and not for Marta buses?
Shipman added: “If we are serious about mass transit, rail is the only viable solution. I’m convinced it will work. Atlanta is better off competitively leaning into being a city and not being a suburb.”
Doug Shipman with the facts! More solid quotes from Doug in the article.
in doing so, they found that there was virtually no difference in emergency response travel time (in min/km) after a road conversion compared to before, both in total and when they looked at specific road diets.
So, the question is whether we will offer residents transportation alternatives, especially in areas with the greatest population density.
This is the crux of the issue. We, as a metro-area, must give people true transportation alternatives to cars.