Traffic and transit

As the General Assembly and Governor continue to consider regional mass transit funding, I wanted to point your attention to the Texas Transportation Institute's just-released 2007 Urban Mobility Report. It's a detailed and lengthy report, but the conclusion--that the Chicago area is one of the most traffic-choked in the country, and getting worse--will come as no surprise. Transit takes hundreds of thousands of cars off the road every day. If ever we needed a reminder, this study shows that we are all stakeholders in our mass transit system, whether we are transit customers or drivers.

Hat tip to Jon Hilkevitch at the Tribune.