You may have noticed that each of the 11 practice areas of sustainability in the menu to the left has a "Regional agenda" page. These pages are intended to be places to define what it means for our region to be sustainable in each area. Where are we going with energy, food, land use, water, and so on? Right now these pages have some introductory content, but they are not well developed. Over time, we want to fill out each page with a robust regional agenda.
We're starting this month with the regional agenda for transportation. We need your ideas about how the region can develop a more sustainable transportation system — one that gives us access to what we need at the least possible economic and environmental cost. To collect your input and facilitate discussion, we have launched a new forum section. You can go here to see some initial ideas for the transportation regional agenda, and then go here to leave a comment (assuming you are logged into the site as a registered user ).
After we've developed the transportation agenda, we'll move to the other practice areas. We're doing transportation first because GCBL Institute director David Beach is a member of ODOT's 21st Century Transportation Priorities Task Force, which will be recommending state transportation policy reforms in the coming months. So we need your input now!
GCRTA being asked to fistfight in handcuffs
curatorius Says:so long as it gets day-to-day funds only from the farebox and, mainly, from the County sales tax. This sales tax, which according to an RTA official on a PD discussion board, is 70% of funding, is likely to go *down* in a recession like this one, even as gas costs go from $12M to $20M (same source) last year to this year. Only solution is to give transit some gas taxes, but the Ohio Constitution forbids speding *vehicular* gas tax on anything but roads. Oregon's attorney general realized that non-vehicular gas tax (think lawnmowers, leafblowers.....) could be spent on transit and issued such an opinion to get around a comparable stricture there. With the current transition in the Ohio AGs office, is the time ripe to ask for such an opinion??
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