"Transportation-policy group sees trains, bikes, boats in Ohio's future" The Columbus Dispatch

Link: Transportation-policy group sees trains, bikes, boats in Ohio's future
James Nash
The Columbus Dispatch
May 8, 2008

...Beasley, the director of the Ohio Department of Transportation since March 2007, outlined a vision of a less car-centric state at a summit yesterday to plan Ohio's transportation future.

Trains could carry more passengers and freight. Rivers aren't used to their potential as conduits of goods. Even bikes ought to be seen as a means to commute rather than simply as recreation.

Those points were raised during the first meeting of the Ohio 21st Century Transportation Priorities Task Force, a 62-member panel that's supposed to sketch the future of transportation in the state.

The buzzword was "multimodal" -- a seamless web of roads, airports, rail lines, bus and bike routes, and even boats...