What Young Professionals Want

Rust Wire: "In 2011, the Columbus (Ohio) Chamber of Commerce asked young professionals what they want for their city. Here is a word cloud generated from their lists:"

Columbus circulator bus proposed. Free?

COTA 'Circulator' routes are proposed for downtown area | ThisWeek Community News: "According to the plan, which includes 20 stops along the route, the new 30-foot-long buses would stop every 10 to 15 minutes between 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.

"We often hear from people who live in the neighborhoods adjacent to downtown and in the central business district that our local service is a little too complicated for those who want to make short hops from one destination to another in downtown Columbus," Stutz said.

Fees have not been established.

"Reduced or free fares are certainly on the table," he said.

At a public meeting Aug. 28, one of four held last week, residents voiced overall support for the plan but asked transit officials to consider expanding the circulator route east and increasing the frequency of stops to every five to eight minutes."

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Bicyclists are dreaming if they think there will ever be co-existence between bike and car

Taunting Craigslist Post About Bicycle Crash Strikes Nerve With Biking Community | WBNS-10TV Columbus, Ohio: "The message, posted on Craigslist, begins, "To the bicyclist who went down hard today, I admit you must be hurting and I laughed all the way to work."
The post titled "A warning to bicyclists in Columbus" goes on to describe the incident in detail and warns other bicyclists to "beware of people like me who won't stop for you.""

There is only one solution. All bicyclists should become free transit advocates. Let's abolish the private auto.

Oil companies spending millions to control government

Take Action: "At the peak of the 2012 elections, Chevron dumped $2.5 million into a super PAC devoted solely to running negative ads against Democrats seeking election to the U.S. House of Representatives.

Chevron's super PAC spending, enabled by the Supreme Court's disastrous Citizens United ruling, will further entrench politicians who deny the existence of climate change and refuse to cut corporate welfare. Such political positions create the conditions for Chevron’s record profits, even as they destroy the conditions for life on Earth."

Time to Rethink Roads: Millennials Lead Change in Transportation Trends

EcoWatch: : "The driving boom is over"

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Koch oil trolls have an important mission - kill #publictransit

Ridership and public support for transit has continued to grow in Cincinnati, despite consistent attacks from the Kasich administration. Photograph by Randy Simes for UrbanCincy.

POLL: Tax Support for Public Transit Grows, While Funding Sources in SW Ohio Remain Limited — UrbanCincy: "While ridership on transit and support for taxes going towards transit increases throughout Ohio and the United States, the State of Ohio continues to invest in almost exclusively roads. In the recommended 2014-2015 Transportation Budget, Governor John Kasich (R) and ODOT Director Jerry Wray call for a mere 1.9% of the $3.1 billion budget to go towards public transportation."

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Oil trolls in Ohio viciously attack homeless children

Ohio budget passed by House would bar young students from taking public transportation to school: Michael K. McIntyre's Tipoff | cleveland.com: "In Cleveland, eliminating public transportation for K-5 students would disproportionately hurt the nearly 4,000 homeless students and those who move around the district, estimated at 30 percent of the student population, said Roseanne Canfora, spokeswoman for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District schools. Kids that age are provided traditional yellow buses, unless they have no permanent address. Those kids rely on public transportation."

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