ODOT could always cancel additional lanes and road construction and apply the money towards rail. Not that they would do that on their own.
As for taking rail somewhere and using the bus system it would just have to be simple to use and if you could get a day pass or two/three/etc with your ticket that would make it much better.
The one problem we still have is that by and large our neighborhoods are not well signed and way-finding signs are limited to the most favored neighborhoods of the Short North & German Village for those coming from Downtown. For other neighborhoods, visitors not familiar with the city have no idea they exist unless they've done their homework. Even though you can take COTA up and down N High St with the #2, no out-of-towner knows what neighborhoods the other lines take you to. Kiosks and way-finding signs need to provide an interconnected system that makes Columbus user-friendly, including what bus to take to get to X neighborhood.




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