Sustainability | Transit
Taxis and Payphones
Finding the nexus on old and new modes of travel
A Monday Dispatch ~ October 16, 2023
For this edge series I call my dispatch, I write about sustainability, resilience, and opportunity. Sometimes more specifically on urban development, mass transit, connectivity, regional planning. I realize now I have yet to write about trees. Rather unusual, since I am a devote advocate for urban forests. I live in one, in fact.
Today, however, I write about travel and connectivity.
From this patch of urban forest, I can take the bus to the train station and take another train or bus to somewhere else in the USA. I don’t often do so, but it is an option. I do prefer ground travel, after all.
I could even consider traveling by train to another city for work. Although taking a daily commuter train in this region incurs a silly cost, there are trains available.
What is striking to me is that there is not a taxi stand at the local train station. Nor a payphone. Unless you are taking a bus from the train station, or walking, or someone is picking you up, you must have a cell phone to order car service.
