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From The Alive:
What Columbus Needs: Transportation – Moving people, not cars
By John RossRespondents to the What Columbus Needs survey agreed that the city needs to improve public transportation, with nearly 60 percent saying the system in Columbus is much worse than networks in other cities.
User-generated comments clashed on whether Columbus needs more bike paths, intercity passenger rail, streetcars or suburban trolleys. But nearly all agreed that car-centric Central Ohio needs to adopt the sort of multimodal system seen in larger, flourishing metropolises.
I think it would be hard to fit a Euclid-style BRT on Broad (I can elaborate if you want), but it would be great to do something. A median would be great too. The 8 lane cross-section downtown has to change.
Cbus Islander – I agree that we need an advocacy group (see http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/topic/columbus-citizens-for-light-rail). Recently I have been thinking a Coalition may be the way to go – there are lots of groups and organizations out there that support better transit, but they have no unified voice.