Is Your Transportation Planning a Good Idea?

Transportation planning has really been oriented toward accommodating automobile travel. In most communities, a typical community is spending somewhere around 20 25 dollars annual, per capita on sidewalks. And if it's a city that's making major investments in bicycle facilities, that's typically 20 to forty dollars a year per capita on bicycle facilities. A typical community is Spending somewhere between 102 hundred dollars a year to in total, to subsidized public transit. Most north american commn have far more automobile ownership and far more automobile travel than what people would choose if we were willing to respond to that latent demand.