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How Cities Can Shape Transportation Technology For The Greater Good

http://thedianerehmshow.org/2015/09/02/how-cities-can-shape-transpo...

Technology and innovation shouldn’t be things that “happen” to cities — they’re things cities can embrace to shape their own future, former D.C. and Chicago transportation head Gabe Klein said ahead of our show on smart cities

He shares how:

Cities are at the most critical juncture in our lifetimes right now, and have a huge opportunity ahead of them — if they make good choices.

That opportunity lies in two spheres.  The first: Undo a half century of terrible planning decisions around one mode, the automobile, and remake our streets in favor of people, so they can safely walk, bike, play and live as close as possible to fundamental services and their work. The second: embracing technology as well as new business and operating models to more efficiently use the infrastructure and systems we already have and to better serve the public and its future.

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Thanks for the link, very insightful. If you stop to think about it for about 5 milliseconds, almost all the roadway infrastructure ever built was a taxpayer paid subsidy to the automotive and oil industries. Eisenhower started the interstate highway system back in the '50's, ostensibly to assist our national defense mobilize when necessary, but clearly that wasn't the real reason. It was a corporate welfare project and paid off handsomely for the vested interests. Remember the old saying; "if its good for GM, it's good for America." Back in the '50's GM was the world's largest company. Not all that hard to understand, if you consider that America had the only industrial economy left undamaged by WW2. It took almost a full generation for the rest of the world to rebuild itself but now we're entering a post-industrial world, where ideas carry as much weight (if not more) than physical goods. I call that progress.

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