Promoting Alternatives to Car Transport

MCLI Recommendation: “Federal, state, and local laws, polices, and programs, as well as metropolitan planning organizations, need to be altered to devote a larger share of transportation funding to providing meaningful alternatives to driving, and to increase funding for projects that better connect various modes in order to expand transportation choices.”

LPDD Recommendation: “Localities should adopt policies and programs that permit buses and light rail cars to move faster than motor vehicles, such as providing dedicated lanes for transit and signal prioritization that allows transit vehicles to move through intersections more quickly.”

LPDD Recommendation: “Localities should improve frequency of transit service, rather than geographic scope of coverage, to make transit more competitive with motor vehicles where it is deployed.”

LPDD Recommendation: “States, MPOs, and localities should also fund new types of services, like bike share programs.”

LPDD Recommendation: “Federal, state, and local design standards that mandate unnecessarily wide, high-seed roads should be modified to make them more flexible and context-sensitive in order to promote non-motorized transportation.”

LPDD Recommendation: “States, MPOs, and localities should join the more than 1,325 agencies that have adopted ‘complete streets’ policies.”