Modern Transit Society articles
and position papers

The Free Market for Transportation Plan

A plan to eliminate welfare for automobiles and increase efficiency of all transportation modes
[cover page] [executive summary] [contents] [first page] [last page]

Letters from and to MTS.

New types of transit and new lines:

• A quick way to implement rail transit on freight lines: The debut of Diesel light rail
• Automated Guideway Transit and People Movers
  • Personal Rapid Transit
• Putting San Jose's Vasona Line on a Fast Track
• BART extension from Fremont to San Jose, several articles in GUIDEWAY
• more from other web sites

How to alleviate traffic congestion:

• Solution for traffic congestion
• Ending parking subsidies will result in dramatic transit increase
• Employee Parking Cashout
  • Results of 10 studies
  • Request to VTA to end parking subsidies instead of increasing transit fares

The push for more highways, increased automobile usage:

• HOV lanes cause huge solo driver increase, Traffic engineers' disinformation on HOVs
• HOV lanes exposed; Carpool lane facts for the San Francisco Bay Area
• More! Index of MTS articles on HOV lanes.
• Government encourages automobile use

Allow transit, bicycles and pedestrians!:

• Sidewalks "prohibited !" (photos)
• The Conflict of Transportation Competitors
  • Summary and Purpose: page 1
  • Bicycles on Expressways: page 2
  • Traffic Engineers vs. Transit Patrons: page 3
  • The Fight to save the streetcars and electric trains: page 4
  • The desired result: drive people to drive: page 5
  • General Motors' destruction of California transit systems: page 6
  • Recent Conflicts of Competitors in Santa Clara County: page 7
  • Is safety one of the goals for traffic engineers?: page 8
  • Despite unanimous San Jose City Council vote, the struggle was not over: page 9
  • Epilogue, Conclusion and Challenge: page 10
• Allow electric trains again on the Bay Bridge!

Little-known environmental effects of the automobile:

• Sound walls reflects freeway roar onto other neighborhoods
• Hidden inefficiencies of the internal combustion engine
• Oil refineries consume lots of water
• Water "run-off" pollution accounts for 60% of all surface pollution nationally (EPA). Most of this is from automobiles and trucks. See details (not a MTS article)

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