Next Tuesday, Asheville City Council will be looking at initial implementation strategies for its transit master plan. With a wealth of information, members of city council remain beholden to arguments considered expedient for their public images. For example, the city intends to start running buses every half hour instead of every hour. The argument being, obviously, that scarcity reduces demand. But, since transit is supposed to be subsidized, it might as well be super-sized subsidized. Read the arguments at your own risk.
In a less foggy “parallel dimension,” the John Locke Foundation’s Roy Cordato contributed significantly to this informative piece that raises several good points typically left out of arguments pertaining to transportation planning. It is one of the better online articles I’ve read in awhile.
