Talk of the Town focuses on local policies
Former Gainesville City Commissioner Ed Braddy, and former Gainesville Sun cartoonist Jake Fuller host a call in talk show on Star 99.5 FM. One of their recent programs featured an interview with Doctor Sam Staley of the Reason Foundation about transportation policy and the ideologies behind them. According to Braddy and his guest, our traffic congestion is not an accident. This interview comes in four parts:
- Part 1 (9:46) Congestion, sustainability, growth & productivity, New Urbanism
- Part 2 (12:23) Land-use & transportation connection, complex travel patterns, federal transit subsidies, auto-mobility & jobs
- Part 3 (14:33) Road diets, solutions & strategies, people preferences, technology advances, ideology of urban form
- Part 4 (11:21) Who serves who?, callers comment
Talk of the Town in on weekday afternoons at 12 o’clock and is an hour long. I highly recommend this program for people who want more analysis of our local government’s actions.
I just watched the Commission meeting where Rodney Long was complaining about the lack of parking on S.W.15th…People possibly getting parking tickets when they go to church…Byerly and Delaney complaining about the parking issue on 75th at the park…As inconvenient as it might be,wouldn’t the obvious fix to those problems be to just tell those people affected that they should just use our beloved Transit system? Or are there only areas such as Main Street and University Avenue that we feel that people should be forced to scramble for limited parking and maneuver through congested streets?
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