Michael Moynihan: We should consider introducing free public transport in Cork
Paying attention to the bus as the workhorse of commuting and urban transport means prioritising it through dedicated bus lanes around the city.
A computer-generated image of the Cork LUAS system as part of the CMATS. Introducing free bus travel in Cork is not as outlandish as it sounds. You only have to look toward France and Estonia for inspiration.
Thu, 28 Jan, 2021 - 07:42
How many readers can recall Singles, a movie released back in 1992 featuring Campbell Scott, Bridget Fonda and sundry others? If the two actors mentioned above locate it precisely in a particular time, so does the grunge-era soundtrack, which is appropriate to its Seattle setting. I don’t raise it here because the Mudhoney revival is overdue it isn’t but because the Campbell Scott character, Steve, is germane this morning.
A Hampton Roads Transit bus in Norfolk by Vlad Gavrilovic/ Norfolk Transit Department used with permission.
A version of this article first appeared in the Virginia Mercury.
After Virginia’s capital city overhauled its bus routes in 2018, the resulting 17% annual growth in ridership made the city’s sole public transportation provider the Greater Richmond Transit Company a rare example of success at a time when systems across the country had been losing passengers for years.
Norfolk took note and launched a year-long public process that produced a new bus network this month which aims to overhaul the face of public transportation in a region that recorded 18,653 scheduled buses that never arrived in one year alone.
The MTA has a ‘doomsday’ plan if it doesn’t get more federal money. Why doesn’t NJ Transit?
Updated Dec 21, 2020;
Transit agencies across the nation, including those in New York and Philadelphia, are warning of serious service cuts and reduction in major projects if more federal coronavirus aid fails to materialize to make up for revenue shortfalls caused by the coronavirus.
New York MTA officials called it a “doomsday plan” of service cuts and employee layoffs. SEPTA officials warned of similar reductions without a second round of federal COVID-19 aid. Port Authority officials said its ambitious 10-year capital plan could be cut without $3 billion in federal aid.