Monday, December 26, 2005
mass transit in the Triangle
Getting to work during rush hour is unbelievably ridiculous. Everyone commutes by car, usually with a 1-person-1-car sort of deal. No one takes the bus, even though a ticket is cheaper than the cost of gas used. What is it with people? Why is their first response to the traffic to just widen the lanes? What do you think about the NC govt.'s new plan to subsidize companies whose employees telecommute from home?
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Sounds like a neat plan; do you know how many workers in the Triangle are potential telecommuters?
What would be nice for the Triangle is a rail based mass transit system. The TTA has had a commuter rail project in the works for a few years now, however they don't have enough potential riders to follow through with it. I guess Triangle commuters generally don't hate the traffic enough to give up driving their cars to work.
I for would love to be able to live in the Triangle without a car, but things just seem too far apart for that to be possible... even taking the bus in Chapel Hill during the summer was really, really inconvenient. They would build a rail going from Knightdale all the way to Pittsboro, but once you get to the right town, things can still be 10 or 20 miles away.
Maybe what we need are much smaller and more fuel-efficient personal vehicles... don't they have these in Europe or Japan already?
I totally know what you guys mean. Things are so spread out. A lot of road space actually isn't taken up by a car (or else we'd all be driving dangerously).
I always wonder about RTP. IBM and Nortel are right across the street from 1 of the 2 RTP stations proposed for the regional rail. Most of the traffic happens during commuter times anyways along the Durham-Raleigh stretch, it seems. It just doesn't seem sustainable the way things are going.
What do you think is the idea solution for the traffic?
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