[ardecila]

I agree that a renewed focus on transit is important, especially when we are wholesale redeveloping entire swaths of the city like North Branch, West Loop and Riverline/Southbank/78.

Having one transit link at these sites (like the 78 and its Red Line stop) is considered good, but if we don't provide a menu of transit options in each of these places, then people will drown in their own congestion and I think this kind of growth will become unsustainable. I don't mind having congested roads if people have a reliable transit alternative, but in most of these cases the only alternative for non-downtown trips is the bus, and it's stuck in the same damn traffic jams. We need to start building a network of frequent reliable transit service across the inner part of the city, not just to/from the Loop.

Building bus lanes is the obvious choice but we kind of shit the bed on that one with Daley's parking meter lease. Maybe it is worth buying out the contract or at least negotiating a ransom price per mile to get our streets back...