Getting Around Must Be Smarter

Posted by Julia Klaiber on December 17, 2010

Reacting to Monday's article in the Tennessean about Driven Apart, CEOs for Cities' critique of the Texas Transportation Institute's Urban Mobility Report, the Daily News Journal published "Getting around must be smarter," an editorial calling for Rutherford County to "get serious about mass transit solutions and begin the costly process of not only building the infrastructure needed to make commuting more efficient and effective, but also thinking differently about how communities grow."

With a population increase of one million expected in the Nashville metro area by 2035, the report's emphasis on better land use planning--rather than the status quo of sinking federal dollars into more highways--rings true for Nashville's MPO, which  approved a $5 billion regional transit plan on Wednesday.

Read the full editorial here.