Although they may not realize it yet both Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) and tourism in Sonoma and Marin Counties depend upon one another for their future success. EcoRing has published a White Pater exploring this symbiosis and made recommendations on how to deepen this relationship. You can read it here:
Editorials
Some Simple Ideas For Improving Urban Transportation: These fixes won’t take years and millions of dollars to implement.
Author Benno Martens
I could watch that video of Copenhagen on a loop for hours. It’s like witnessing an urban ballet. But there isn’t a city in the United States that is on a par with Copenhagen when it comes to transportation.
In researching this piece, it was infuriating how awful mass transit in the United States compared to the rest of the world. It’s embarrassing to try to put even our best transit cities in the same league as mediocre ones in Europe and Asia.
Before any American city becomes the next Copenhagen, there’s a ton of work to be done and a host of countervailing forces working against progress.