[Vision2020] Idaho Public Transportation Planning

[Joe Campbell]

Thanks, Ken. I worry that the opposite will happen and that public
transportation will be cut. It is likely that the Wheatland Express route
between WSU and UI will be cut after this spring.

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com> wrote:

> In part due to political unrest in Middle Eastern countries, and in part
> due
> to the economic financialization of the petroleum pricing activities of the
> investment markets, the price of the preferable sweet crude petroleum for
> refining into transportation fuels again reached just under $100 per barrel
> this week.
>
> This price is equivalent to mid-2007 prices, and was topped only by the
> 2008
> price spike that got a lot of attention. Continued political unrest in
> major
> oil producing countries suggests higher supply uncertainties, and that will
> surely be translated into higher prices. Further, given the historic sweep
> of
> political changes now underway, the possibility of yet significantly higher
> prices should not be discounted to help justify usual do-nothing attitudes.
>
> The prospect of significantly higher transportation fuel prices behooves
> Idaho
> transportation planners to consider expansion of service and encouragement
> of
> ridership for urban transportation in at least the bakers' dozen largest
> Idaho
> cities, sized from Eagle upward to Boise. Further, local planners around
> the
> state should consider expanding, or providing in the first place, smaller
> scale
> transportation services for elderly, disabled, and those in need of non-
> emergency medical attention and care.
>
> Legislative officials would do well to notify local planners that renewed
> interest in transportation planning of both larger cities and smaller towns
> is
> of continuing interest both for cooperative economic benefit and for
> enhancing
> quality of life for those for whom necessary local travel is difficult.
> Local
> discussions, hearings, and recommendations that are forthcoming should be
> considered with respect to possible legislative assistance for
> implementation.
>
>
> Ken
>
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