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Combed Thunderclap posted:Columbus, Ohio has won a total of $140 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Smart City Challenge! Columbus resident checking in! While this is awesome, and is mainly a reflection us of being the largest metropolitan area in the US without any rail service, I do have my doubts regarding the self driving car paradigm. I hope it works out but it is yet untested. I would really love a commuter rail system and it would make my life so much easier. There have been numerous pipe dream rail proposals as well as advocacy groups for a while now trying to stem state investment in mass transit systems but they have gone no where. My personal favorite is this one:  However that will never happen. Due to trends in population in the Ohio region, creating a feasible and more often utilized mass transit system is becoming increasingly important. Franklin county and surrounding areas are projecting to grow in large amounts while the older cities of Cleveland and Cincinatti are seeing migration. https://development.ohio.gov/files/research/P6095.pdf The city is quite sprawled out making mass transit a challenging issue and rail development along busy corridors (i.e. High street) would be extremely expensive, so it is not an easy task to take on. The city is starting a BRT program soon from downtown north to the Polaris area along the Cleveland Avenue corridor and I am interested in seeing how that goes.
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