You have got to connect your land use decisions with transportation decisions.
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As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions.
In the same way we have a long-term plan for building roads, we have to have a long term plan to build transit.
Without land, how can you have development of roads, highways, townships, etc?
Our goal was to completely change transportation. Change traffic. And make it possible to get anywhere you want to go without owning a car.
One of the things I would love for people to think about is social responsibility. If you are fortunate enough to be someone who owns land, I think you ought to be making the most efficient use of that land possible.
We all have points in our lives where two roads present themselves and we have to make a decision very fast. We don't know how it will impact our lives, but it usually does.
If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.
Transportation spending is a win-win proposition.
When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.
We have to allow people in the states to make their own decisions, to get government agencies out of the way and let local people make decisions about what's best for them.