Transit & the High Cost of Auto Orientation in Indy
Posted by Jim Hodapp in Pedestrian, Transit on Feb 21st, 2017 | 35 comments
Final vote meeting details:Â February 27: Full-council meeting – vote on final adoption (7:00 p.m. in Public Assembly Room)
I want to first call your attention to contacting your city councilor, especially if you live in a district where your councilor hasn’t made up his or her mind yet about the transit plan. Tell them that we need this transit improvement plan and that now is the time. We can’t afford to wait another tens years to start improving our mass transit in this city.
There’s no doubt that in Indy, we love the automobile. There are many times when a car is a...
Alternative Methods for Funding Local Transportation: VMT tax
Posted by Curt Ailes in Transit on Aug 12th, 2011 | 19 comments
A recent front page story in the New York Times highlighted a pilot program in The Netherlands whereby personal automobiles were outfitted with a meter not unlike what you would find in a taxi cab. The meter was linked via GPS and tracked how many miles and what route were travelled and tabulated a charge based on these factors. The meter contained a readout, also much like a taxi cab meter, that displayed the charge that the driver would see in an end of the month bill. The service would operate much like cell phone service where you get charged for what you used.
The idea seems a novel one in that...
