Digital_Islandboy
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Cambridge's future very much depends on maintaining good transit
Yesterday's Wicked Local online paper had a piece highlighting how Cambridge might be affected by MBTA service cut backs. I agree to a point. In deed many developments have curtailed parking spaces and pushed transit as an alternative. If those companies now cannot get their employees to/from work easily those companies may suffer and so will the city.
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Article: Guest commentary: MBTA cuts will derail Cambridge development - by Mark Jaquith
Date: Posted Feb 11, 2012 @ 02:21 PM
Source: www.WickedLocal.com - Wicked Local, Cambridge edition
Link:
http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridg...y-MBTA-cuts-will-derail-Cambridge-development
(SNIP)Cambridge —
By now if you haven’t heard that the MBTA has a huge operating deficit and is proposing steep fare increases and service cutbacks that still won’t solve the problem in the long term, then stop reading and go back to the TV. Most of the coverage of this mess has concentrated on the impacts on T riders. Very little has been said about what it might do to cities like Cambridge. Certainly, cutbacks will reduce ridership, and that will negatively affect access to education, employment, commerce, and recreation. These reasons alone should be enough to worry you, with the associated economic, social and environmental impacts. But wait, there’s more.(/end SNIP)
Yesterday's Wicked Local online paper had a piece highlighting how Cambridge might be affected by MBTA service cut backs. I agree to a point. In deed many developments have curtailed parking spaces and pushed transit as an alternative. If those companies now cannot get their employees to/from work easily those companies may suffer and so will the city.
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Article: Guest commentary: MBTA cuts will derail Cambridge development - by Mark Jaquith
Date: Posted Feb 11, 2012 @ 02:21 PM
Source: www.WickedLocal.com - Wicked Local, Cambridge edition
Link:
http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridg...y-MBTA-cuts-will-derail-Cambridge-development
(SNIP)Cambridge —
By now if you haven’t heard that the MBTA has a huge operating deficit and is proposing steep fare increases and service cutbacks that still won’t solve the problem in the long term, then stop reading and go back to the TV. Most of the coverage of this mess has concentrated on the impacts on T riders. Very little has been said about what it might do to cities like Cambridge. Certainly, cutbacks will reduce ridership, and that will negatively affect access to education, employment, commerce, and recreation. These reasons alone should be enough to worry you, with the associated economic, social and environmental impacts. But wait, there’s more.(/end SNIP)
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