But I am just a pilgrim on this road, boys
Until I see you fare thee well
-Steve Earle, Pilgrim

Sunday, February 10, 2008

The Future of Transit in Springfield

While everyone would like to bring back street cars or build light rail, this film about Bogota, Colombia, is a more likely future. If the buses were electric, which is the way to go because of the flexibility of energy sources, they could be designed to look like street cars. Near the end of the film, they show a storage facility for 750 bikes at a bus station. It is cheaper to provide bike storage that encourages bike riding to the major bus stations than provide feeder bus lines.

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