

Missed opportunity on the transit story


There was a rather pleasant story recently about the effectiveness of the Capital Region’s transport system. According to a study by the Brookings Institution, the Albany metro area ranked 29th in the nation, out of 100, in connecting people to their jobs. So the article effectively captured the local angle.

What was peculiar, though, is the fact that there was no mention in the story of the actual TITLE of the Brookings document upon which the statistics were drawn, and no link to it in the online version of the story. The report was called Missed Opportunity: Transit and Jobs in Metropolitan America. As one of the sidebar stories reveal, the narrative of transit and jobs is “Better Than You Thought and Worse Than You Hoped.”

So, IMHO, by not mentioning the context of the report, two years in the making, the TU missed the larger picture.

Categories: General, transportation
Roger Green

One Response

  1. Albanius says:

    Thanks for the link.

    Although I appreciate that CDTA does reasonably well with limited resources, and per Brookings quite well for commuting to work, the Brookings study only looked at that one dimension.

    Unfortunately, CDTA’s off-peak service remains sparse and infrequent.
    Too many destinations are served rarely or not at all evenings and weekends.