California Transit: It'll Drive You To Drive

Posted by: Paul Shigley

12 October 2008 - 1:00pm

Northern California planner and lawyer Joel Ellinwood has committed himself to riding trains and public transit whenever possible. He's learning a lot along the way.

Need to transfer from one transit operator to another? Good luck, says Ellinwood. Can't find the right station? Join the club. In a hurry? Don't be.

"My own experience demonstrates the danger in minimizing the difficulties of relying on transit for newbies like me and the work we as planners face to make transit a real option that a less committed person would try more than once."

But there is good news, and it involves no less than Fresno and Amtrak.

Full Story: A Transit Reality Check

Source: California Planning & Development Report, October 9, 2008