The Importance Of Car Ownership

The town of Halton Hill’s population includes the areas of Georgetown and Acton and other communities such as Erin, Oakville, Burlington and Milton regions. This is what is considered to be my community because these are the many places that I am visiting most often and they are always referred to together as “Halton Hills Region” (p.5, 2011). With the substantial increase in population in the Halton Hills region, more specifically Georgetown, there should be a strong demand for a public transit system to counteract all of the environmental disturbances that are being caused due to this increase. One of the things that is happening is that there are so many trees they are cutting down in order to expand and grow the population with houses being built. Statistics are showing that the population of Halton Hill’s region will expand by 54% over the next 20 years (p.5, 2011). By the year 2031, employment rates will increase by 75%, leaving Halton with 42,100 jobs being offered (p.5, 2011). With this rapid influx of citizens, this will only increase the demands of travel to get to these work places as well as other destinations (p.5, 2011). Over the past couple of year’s the traffic congestion on the major roads in Halton Hills such as Trafalgar Road and Regional Road 25 with individuals trying to get to and from work. There used to be very little traffic in these areas, however since Halton Hill’s has continued to expand, the utilization of automobiles has significantly increased due to the fact there is no public transit system. The Transportation Demand Management in Halton Hill’s is noticing the increase in automobiles stating that there needs to be a major shift in more efficient ways of transportation, yet there still has been nothing improvised (p.7, 2011). The Transportation Demand

As people have difficulties to reaching services and activities without having a car, owning a car has its disadvantages and problems also. The problem’s origin date back to the 1920s. While cities were being planned, overall design was based on car usage, but did not account for growth in that population. Urban sprawl added to increased car usage, which was not taken into account during the design phase, and improper

Traffic flows are unacceptably heavy on Route 146 and on Main (Route 9W) and State (Route 9E) Streets. During peak travel hours (7:30 AM to 9:30 AM and 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM), average trip times are far below State standards for a community of this size. Trips between point A and point B in either direction, a distance of 4.5 miles, require 30 minutes on average.

Trains are everywhere in our society, we have jokes, toys, movies, and children’s television shows, but did you know rail transport started in 6th century Greece? The city of San Antonio, Texas is a fast-growing metropolitan city that has a very tremendous amount of people. It has been estimated that the city will grow by another million people in the next ten to twenty years. San Antonio’s traffic is becoming a huge issue and is quickly approaching to be one of the most congested areas in the states. The public transport in San Antonio consists of a very complex bus system, taxicabs, Trolley’s downtown, and the growing market of ridesharing drivers. San Antonio has had many talks and negotiations throughout the last two decades on getting a Light Rail system constructed to help with public transportation. This proposal is for specific businesses, the city of San Antonio and Bexar County to come to a funding agreement.

nMotion is a controversial plan to invest more than $6B over the next 25 years in the public transportation infrastructure. The plan includes steps to simplify the system, develop BRT lines, build rail lines, and regionalize service to enhance efficiency. Many region leaders agree that the community must move in this direction, but unfortunately it is controversial due to the fact that public support for such an investment is not strong.

These issues and many others will be fleshed out as part of a $175,000 Caltrans Sustainable Transportation Planning grant we’ve secured to come up with a comprehensive Rail Corridor Plan. With information presented comprehensively at community meetings, the Council and the public will be able to discuss the possibilities for long-term solutions such as trenching (as in Solana Beach), more under-crossings like the Swami’s pedestrian underpass at Santa Fe Drive, and all other options. Over the past 30 years, the city has seen multiple studies, and those results will be compiled and presented as part of the Rail Corridor

With the constrained scenario, traffic flow has improved, commute time has decreased, workers are getting to their places of business faster, and the businesses themselves are finding that they can transport their goods in a more timely fashion. The measures that were employed consist of adding directional bike lanes to the bridge, restriping the bridge combined with timed directional transition of the middle 5th lane, additional bus routes, and converting old buildings into domiciles. Although these measures have helped to improve traffic flow in the region, capital will have to be spent at a future date in order to add additional

The funding sources came from the Federal which estimated about $161. 85 million, the State which estimated about $30 million, and the Local which estimated about $40.3 million. Furthermore, with this funding they were able to do add a second track and safety enhancements such as new gates, flash warning devices, raised center dividers, pedestrian crosswalk, and pavement markings. In addition to these enhancements, in some communities’ sound walls and quiet zones are being set up. The government’s goal and objective include but are not limited to: improving the transportation system with alternate travel choices, invest and deploy resources effectively and efficiently, promote community and transit oriented development, and minimize adverse environmental

At the present moment, the city is in dire need of modifying other means of transportation in order to minimize heavy traffic congestion that we have experienced over the past year. With a new institution of higher learning opening up traffic will get worse once students start enrolling in college come next spring. Therefore, our immediate attention has been focused on addressing this issue so that we can come up with a permanent solution without scapegoating or externalizing the

I believe that we should keep the automobile and it should remain a central part in all American’s lives. To many of us the automobile represents freedom, and if we remove the automobile from America you are taking our freedom because we wouldn’t be able to travel wherever whenever we want. We would have to take the bus or a train or a plane and it would limit our ability to travel. Not to mention that people who first bought cars the car was very foreign to them. Before the car people had to bike walk or take a train which took effort. When the car came out they could just hop in the car and go wherever they wanted to.

The car has had many benefits since the early 1900’s. More jobs have been created putting the people into to work. Also the car has given people freedom to travel where they want. The benefits of the car outweigh the effects it has.

Currently, they're tunneling away under the feet of thousands of LA residents. Not only will this alleviate horrific traffic queues throughout central LA, but it will also redefine public transport on a whole new level.

The Station criteria goals were high density residential, employment offices, entertainment, institutional uses, and retail uses all within ¼ mile area. Through this project, I found a possible site within 1/2 mile from 10 stations of gold line. Quarter mile is chosen because it is considered to be an appropriate scale for pedestrian and bike riders. Criteria’s used for analysis included schools, employment, population density, employment, bike paths, roads length, and schools. The future TOD met the following conditions: located in a mixed use residential and commercial within .25 mile of a station with the highest number of school, employment, population, and highest concentration of bike routes, and roads. In the process, a quarter mile buffer around each station was created, total acreage of the commercial and multi-family residential areas within the quarter mile of each station was calculated, schools, employment, population, bike route and roads within each buffer were selected, processed and summarized, summarized tables were joined and each variable ranked, and an aggregated number from all variables were

Minneapolis has been ranked as one of the worst areas in the United States when it comes to traffic. Drivers in the Twin Cities spend an average of 63 hours per year stuck in traffic according to a 2015 survey done by TomTom, a GPS navigation company. In hopes of solving the traffic problem, the first rail line in Minnesota opened back in 2004. Since then there has been a Green Line extension from St. Paul to Minneapolis. The original Blue Line provided 10.6 million rides as of last year and the Green Line has provided 12.4 million rides. Both lines have contributed to the decrease to the overall ridership of the Metro bus system. Due to the success of the Minneapolis light rail system there has been plans to expand it even further.

The MTA has proposed a new strategy to make the F train express from Jay Street/MetroTech to Church Avenue. The “F Express” will be skipping 6 stations (Bergen St, Carroll St, Smith/9th St, 4th Ave/9th St, 15th St, and Ft. Hamilton Parkway). Furthermore, due to irregular service time alternating between express and local’s trains; it will not benefit the riders in the best possible way. On the contrary, due to the implementation of this proposal long wait times and severely increased crowding at the fastest-growing stations will be taking place. Besides, MTA is refusing to schedule a meeting to hear the concerns the community has raised. We the elected officials Council Member Brad Lander, Council Member Stephen Levin, Council Member Carlos