Neal Peirce: Staying Mobile In America

27 November 2006 - 2:00pm

The nation's transportation alternatives are not limited to continue driving as we have or privatizing roads. Neal Peirce wonders if there is a third alternative.

"With the roadways around our metropolitan regions increasingly clogged, how will we ever stay mobile?...some vividly contrasting futures emerge...Vision No. 1 is 'stay the course.' Keep driving as we have...Which brings us to Vision No. 2. We privatize...So is there a Vision No. 3? Yes..."

Source: The Washington Post Writers Group, November 26, 2006
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Perhaps it's no surprise that a transportation system created in the interstate highway era would tilt toward new road capacity. Few deny it works that way.