Local authorities worldwide have been pursuing transit-oriented development (TOD) strategies in order to increase transit ridership, curb traffic congestion, and rejuvenate urban neighborhoods.
Research in New York, which has pioneered segregated bike lane transformations, found protected cycle ways boosted ridership, cut traffic injuries for all street users, and encouraged more women to cycle.
This study performed site selection analysis on the Jefferson Orchards property, performed preliminary environmental screening, determined station design layouts and costs, ridership and traffic impacts and provided an implementation plan.
The last OE service to this station operated on June 19 , 1931 after the company requested, and received, permission from the Interstate Commerce Commission to abandon that section of route because of declining ridership and worsening traffic congestion.
Increased transit ridership even means less traffic and decreased road maintenance costs for those of us who do use a car.
Last year, as commercial airline traffic and rail ridership dipped, intercity bus service grew 5.1 percent, according to the Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development at DePaul University.
In the 1990s, as the economy expanded, both street traffic and transit ridership grew, though the increase in transit was greater.
Without the rapid construction on the Hudson Bergen Light Rail system and the near-completion of the Secaucus interchange, he said, the agency will not be ready to handle the sudden increases in ridership in the wake of traffic snares since the trade center attack and the loss of the major PATH station beneath the towers.
In most cities, the case for non-riders paying is pretty weak as transit ridership is insufficiently high and traffic congestion is sufficiently low that most drivers simply are not saving enough time to matter.
