Transportation
4 Hard Truths About Transit
Lessons that bear repeating to residents of large cities around the world.
Who says only disastrous news emerges from Toronto these days? A regional advisory panel has released a series of sharp discussion papers meant to enlighten the public about transit in greater Toronto (via Human Transit). The first paper — called "Hard Truths about Transit" [PDF] — offers six key points to inform a "mature" debate on the topic. Now there's a word not heard around those parts in a while.
While two of the points are very local in scope, four represent universal lessons that bear repeating to residents in many large cities around the world. The whole paper is worth a read, but here's a peek at those four in particular.