Counties and municipalities have an enormous economic stake in reducing traffic congestion. Unfortunately, few local governments make any significant attempt to partner with their transit agencies and educate and inform potential riders about transit. Even fewer spend resources to pull drivers out of their cars, and everyone suffers from more job-killing road congestion as a result.
Arlington County in Virginia gets it.
The Department of Environmental Services of the County runs an array of services designed to reduce congestion, including the exceptional CommuterPage.com
This site is the model for county and municipal governments to improve their region’s economy by investing in mobility.
CommuterPage focuses on information distribution on existing programs (transit, ridesharing, taxicabs, walking and bicycling, telework) to combat congestion.
Every local elected official who promised to do something about bad traffic in their communities should get their Department of Transportation or Department of Environment to launch an ongoing information distribution effort like CommuterPage.
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