http://blogs.roanoke.com/rtblogs/roundtable/2008/10/12/discuss-sundays-editorials-61/ Read and comment on topics posted by The Roanoke Times editorial board. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:30:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://blogs.roanoke.com/rtblogs/roundtable/2008/10/12/discuss-sundays-editorials-61/#comment-27920 Alexsander Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:00:56 +0000 http://blogs.roanoke.com/rtblogs/roundtable/?p=7479#comment-27920 This editorial about the idea of busses in Christiansburg brings up an idea I had, which was to combine the BT, the Radford University transit system, Community Transit, Pulaski Area Transit, and a couple more smaller agencies into one regional transit authority. If the New River Valley is an emerging metropolitan area, lets move forward and link up all our communities under one New River Valley Transit Authority, instead of this multitude of agencies with no cross-cooperation. As a transit driver for Radford University, one of my biggest questions I get from my patrons is "when are we going to be able to take a bus to the mall". Unfortunately, you can't get there from here, at least on a bus. Also, foreign exchange students can't believe the lack of public transportation we have here. If we can come up with some sort of continuous bus service in the NRV, we can reduce the number of cars on the road, especially on VA-114 and US-11. This would be a great time for our area leaders to really show the rest of the state, and possibly the nation, that we can have a model public transportation system that works. This editorial about the idea of busses in Christiansburg brings up an idea I had, which was to combine the BT, the Radford University transit system, Community Transit, Pulaski Area Transit, and a couple more smaller agencies into one regional transit authority. If the New River Valley is an emerging metropolitan area, lets move forward and link up all our communities under one New River Valley Transit Authority, instead of this multitude of agencies with no cross-cooperation. As a transit driver for Radford University, one of my biggest questions I get from my patrons is "when are we going to be able to take a bus to the mall". Unfortunately, you can't get there from here, at least on a bus. Also, foreign exchange students can't believe the lack of public transportation we have here. If we can come up with some sort of continuous bus service in the NRV, we can reduce the number of cars on the road, especially on VA-114 and US-11. This would be a great time for our area leaders to really show the rest of the state, and possibly the nation, that we can have a model public transportation system that works.

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