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I agree with much of what has been said here. Today's metropolitan areas are just so spread out it is difficult to even begin forming a transportation plan. I have a degree in geography with a specialization in Urban Planning, and I find transporation planning to the most interesting feature of planning by far. Some cities are beginning to redevelop and make more "walkable" places to live. Urban sprawl is a huge issue and until development patterns change I don't think public transporation will be very successful, in the aspect of creating any new systems. There are some very successful modes of public transporation like New York City Subway obviously, but also look how congested that city is as well. Living in some southern Chicago suburbs I noticed that there aren't even any sidewalks along many streets!!! EVerything is very spread out, and again like many people have already said the current public transportation does not provide service in a suburb to subrub scheme, but in a suburb to city core scheme instead. Fortunately, many people in city government are beginning to see the hastle that urban sprawl has brought and many municipalities are beginning to revise planning strategies to combat urban sprawl. I think public transporation can make a comeback, but it needs the support of wise planning decisions on a regional scale. <br /> Another issue is economics, which I barely understand so please take my thoughts on this issue with a grain of salt. Currently our economy relies almost exclusively on the use of oil for refining into gasoline, buring for energy, etc. Many large industries support and rely on Oil, such as automobile manufacturing, trucking, etc. So, I believe that the government tends to support Oil based/reliant industries more due to the large impact they have on our economy. I know president Bush supports research on hydrogen fuel cells and the like, but I think more needs to be done due to the limited supply of oil left. Due to necessity I think the trend to support other sources of fuel and a more funding towards mass transit will occur in the near future. Again my comments may be hazy due to my lack of understanding, but bear with me. [:D]
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