Get Moving

The Detroit Free Press's Jeff Gerritt is on a mission...a mission to inform and influence public policy that cities matter and that state and federal policy has been leaving them in the dust for the past 30 years or more. Once a month he's been writing about issues that affect cities, informative and challenging pieces www.freep.com/cities. This time around he takes off on transportation policy. http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080413/OPINION01/804130588/1069 Look, its pretty simple. Our infrastructure (roads and bridges, water and sewer lines) is falling apart. On top of that its clear that those cities and regions across the country that are doing well have made a commitment to public transportation.... to the idea that in order to be economically successful you have to understand the premise that its important to move people around from home to work to play and back home again and that building another highway to do it is not an efficient way to get it done.