Leander mayor calls for regional transportation plan, bond

From Impact News, October 20, 2008...

Everyone seems to talk about Central Texas’ transportation issues. In downtown Austin many solutions have been offered: trolley cars, parking garages, rubber tires and/or steel wheels and the like. We treat traffic congestion like the weather; we act as if we have no control over it. I offer the following approach to solve our regional transportation issues.

I do not know if it’s best to dedicate lanes, synchronize traffic lights, go with steel wheels or rubber-tires, or implement some combination of the aforementioned. I do know for sure the traffic problem in downtown Austin is not solely Austin’s problem. Downtown Austin’s traffic problem is the region’s traffic problem.

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