Post in Regional transportation

Jul 08 18:02 UTC

Streetcars help parking because they deliver people to destinations without
their cars. So downtown development and OSU development can proceed without
the need to build expensive parking garages.

Adding bedroom communities is trhe next step.  But that is really where
light rail comes in.  Light rail is commuter rail --it goes faster than
streetcars and makes fewer stops so people are delivered to destinations
faster than their cars could ever take them.  Streetcars work best as short
circulators -- for short trips and there High Street route is perfect
because there are 50,000 students at one end and 100,000 workers at the
other.