The Burke Group shows how using 48.5 cents makes sense. Smart transportation choices, in business and government, are about the bottom-line. So, unfortunately, are poor transportation choices - like continuing to spend millions of dollars on parking decks in a downtown area that nobody can get to easily because of traffic congestion. If you build it, they will come, albeit more and more slowly, with greater aggravation, and eventually, less and less often….
Which brings me to Naperville’s new downtown parking deck proposal to bring 317 new spots downtown, in addition to the plan for 500 spots to wrap around Nichol’s Library downtown, that we’re hearing during Public Transit Month. I won’t go so far as to say that there is never a good argument for having more parking spaces downtown Naperville - but the city is going to spend millions on them when the priority should be more public transportation solutions. It’s long past time to implement serious public transit solutions because we’re going to pay one way or another for public transit, or for the lack of it. Overall it’s more cost effective to have good public transit. Good public transit just makes sense.
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Excellent post. There needs to be a serious discussion in the suburbs about making public transportation more of a priority. Building more parking decks in an already crowded area is a solution on par with adding lanes to area highways that merely shift bottlenecks and congestion further down the road.
Reducing traffic is the only way to address this issue and more parking spaces doesn’t really seem to meet that criteria. Here’s to hoping that common sense and reason will one day shape our transportation strategy.
Posted 26 May 2007 at 8:10 am ¶Hi Greg,
Thanks for the compliment!
Really don’t have anything to add - I agree with you. Here’s to hoping that common sense, spurred now by necessity, will prevail.
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