Impact of oil costs and high speed rail
(Editor's note: These two items appeared in the current newsletter of the group called Transport 2000.)
“Transportation experts say in the future, land use will no longer dictate how we live and travel. In the next 40 years, technology, energy and transportation will determine where we build our homes and how we travel. David Jeanes, president of Transport 2000, a public transportation advocacy group, says the cost of oil will be so prohibitive, cities simply will not be able to afford to build more new roads to service sprawl, even if they want to,” the Ottawa Citizen reported on Nov. 23.
“At $6 billion, the government of Ontario is already protesting that the city’s transit plan to 2031 is too expensive. Imagine what it could be in 2050. ‘This business of having people living outside the Greenbelt and commuting to downtown is not sustainable,’ Jeanes says. ‘We may have to become fragmented. We may have to go back to a city of villages’” the Citizen’s Mohammad Adam reported.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Ottawa+year+2050/2254234/story.html
Canadian Association of Geographers: National high-speed rail
Dr. Barry Wellar, Program Director for Geography Awareness Week, Canadian Association of Geographers, selected “national high-speed rail system” as one of the 28 decision points to feature in his 2009 Geographic Information Systems Day presentation, “GIS and GeoSkills: New Ways to Achieve New Evidence for Better Decisions”.
According to Dr. Wellar, “Decisions involving a national high-speed rail system affect every person in this country one way or another, they affect businesses from the U.S. border to every coast, and they affect urban and regional development, energy supplies, industrial activities, climate change, and so on. This is clearly a topic of vital national interest that requires informed decisions. And timely action.” The presentation is at:
http://www.cag-acg.ca/files/pdf/GAW/Wellar_GIS_DAY_2009_keynote_FINAL.pdf
“Transportation experts say in the future, land use will no longer dictate how we live and travel. In the next 40 years, technology, energy and transportation will determine where we build our homes and how we travel. David Jeanes, president of Transport 2000, a public transportation advocacy group, says the cost of oil will be so prohibitive, cities simply will not be able to afford to build more new roads to service sprawl, even if they want to,” the Ottawa Citizen reported on Nov. 23.
“At $6 billion, the government of Ontario is already protesting that the city’s transit plan to 2031 is too expensive. Imagine what it could be in 2050. ‘This business of having people living outside the Greenbelt and commuting to downtown is not sustainable,’ Jeanes says. ‘We may have to become fragmented. We may have to go back to a city of villages’” the Citizen’s Mohammad Adam reported.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Ottawa+year+2050/2254234/story.html
Canadian Association of Geographers: National high-speed rail
Dr. Barry Wellar, Program Director for Geography Awareness Week, Canadian Association of Geographers, selected “national high-speed rail system” as one of the 28 decision points to feature in his 2009 Geographic Information Systems Day presentation, “GIS and GeoSkills: New Ways to Achieve New Evidence for Better Decisions”.
According to Dr. Wellar, “Decisions involving a national high-speed rail system affect every person in this country one way or another, they affect businesses from the U.S. border to every coast, and they affect urban and regional development, energy supplies, industrial activities, climate change, and so on. This is clearly a topic of vital national interest that requires informed decisions. And timely action.” The presentation is at:
http://www.cag-acg.ca/files/pdf/GAW/Wellar_GIS_DAY_2009_keynote_FINAL.pdf
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