freeways

You are not in a parking lot, but you may as well be. It is five-o-clock in the evening. Interstate 394 is packed with vehicles, stretching past the bend in the road far ahead. The red brake lights of the stationary stream of cars ahead flash intermittently, suggesting only occasional movement. A woman next to you is fuming behind the wheel of a Ford Explorer and laying on her horn. "Sure lady, that will help," you think. Try to breathe and relax. You are going to be here for a long time.

Resources

American Public Transportation Association:  www.apta.com

End of the Road: The World Car Crisis and How We Can Solve It, Wolfgang Zuckermann, 1991

The Elephant in the Bedroom: Automobile Dependence and Denial, Stanley I. Hart, 1993

The Car and the City: 24 Steps to Safe Streets and Healthy Communities, Alan Thein Durning, 1996

Minneapolis/St. Paul Metropolitan Council
Metro Transit Division
560 Sixth Avenue N.
Minneapolis, MN 612-349-7510
www.metrocouncil.org/transit

University of Minnesota - Center for Transportation Studies
200 Transportation and Safety Building
511 Washington Avenue SE
Minneapolis, MN 612-626-1077
www.cts.umn.edu