Here sheep? User ID: 45504645 United States 09/04/2016 11:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You want to know the future of public transportation? Read it right here [ link to www.theverge.com] first morning in Altamonte Springs, Florida, I was faced with a dilemma: how to travel the two miles from my hotel to city hall without a car. Walking would take nearly an hour in the sweltering June heat. Taking a bus would entail waiting up to a half hour at a stop with little shelter from the forecasted thunderstorms, followed by a looping detour to the local mall. The trip could potentially take longer than walking. I was on my way to meet Frank Martz, Altamonte’s city manager. For nearly two decades, Martz had fought to overhaul Altamonte’s transit system with a fleet of demand-responsive public busses. He called the plan FlexBus, and it would use custom-designed software to optimize routes for vehicles that riders would order from kiosks or even desktop computers. Martz saw FlexBus as the key to transforming Altamonte, a loose agglomeration of palm tree-lined strip malls and culs-de-sac a few miles north of Orlando, into a thriving and walkable destination. A long read on the future of sheep.. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 45504645 United States 09/04/2016 11:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: You want to know the future of public transportation? Read it right here Using Uber for 911 now Sky net sure went up quick.. |