Josh Lapp
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We Need Mass Transit!
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You may have seen this headline recently: Columbus will ‘leap-frog’ light rail as transit option after Smart City Challenge win. We’re here to tell you being a smart city means more than embracing driverless cars, it means investing in making Columbus a city focused on moving people. Light Rail, Bus Rapid Transit, and other high capacity […]
Will COTA Stick to Its Plan?
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By now you have probably heard of COTA’s “TSR” plan, also know as Transit System Review or more recently Redesign. Since the formation of COTA in the 1970s, the core system has in many ways, changed very little. This despite monumental shifts in population and development in the Columbus region. Enter TSR, a forward thinking […]
Jaywalking, Street Designing and Walkability in Columbus
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Maybe you heard from several news reports, that last week the Columbus Division of Police has begun stepped up enforcement to crack down on jaywalkers and drivers who are not properly yielding to pedestrians. However positive the intent may have been, the tone of the coverage, as well as several quotes from the CPD raised […]
A Multi-Modal Transportation Voter Guide for Columbus Primaries
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Its a pivotal time for multimodal transportation in Columbus and Central Ohio. Our city and region are the center of population growth for Ohio. Moving forward we must think comprehensively about how our transportation system will accommodate an additional 500,000 residents and 300,000 jobs that the insight2050 report has predicted our region will add by 2050. Multiple planning efforts […]
Another Stop on the Idea Line
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The 2014 State of the City Address by outgoing Mayor Micheal Coleman was an exciting one for transit advocates like us at Transit Columbus. In his address, Mayor Coleman asked the question, among other things, of whether or not rail might be the answer to connect Port Columbus with Downtown. This spurred our organization to convene a studio of OSU […]