Newton Mayor Setti Warren will be discussing his recently released transportation strategy, Newton Transportation Strategy, Newton-in-Motion, this Thursday April 6 from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m., (speaking program at 6 p.m.) at Newton North High SchoolThis event will be set up as an open house with booths representing different components of the strategy: roads, parking, bicycles, shared ride, etc. In addition, there will be presentations from tech-inspired companies in transportation civic innovation.
Let me guess, they will be paying a “Transportation Management” company ten million dollars to study the possibility of adding a bus that nobody will use.
How about Newton tries a ‘uber’ shuttle to encourage public transportation.
Newton rents 4 shuttles which drives around Newton during commute times to pickup and go to either the T or commuter rail. Hail the shuttle from an app.
Residents pay 30 dollars a month and 1 dollar per ride to get picked up from location X the only possible destination is the T or commuter rail.
Can this pay for itself or actually make money?? would it reduce cars?
@bugek – I like it but rather than invent/build a new system I wonder if there’s a way to just piggyback this onto the existing Uber system.