Government, Linn County Crossroads
Replay Live Coverage: The future of transportation in the Corridor
Posted on Dec 03, 2009 by Adam Belz.
The Cedar Rapids metro area’s population will increase by 90,000 over the next 30 years.
How do we want to grow? Where do we want to grow? How do we want to travel?
install public transportation – more buses, a train system connection us to the rest of the world out there (Chicago, Twin Cities ect). Lets put Cedar Rapids/Iowa City area on the US map not just Iowa map. Sorry to say but we are seen as a small hick farm town to most of the US but we are much greater then that. Maybe our elected people need to work harder to make this a better place to live where our collage students want to stay NOT MOVE AWAY.
I 'd like to see their calculations on how they expect a 90K increase over the next 30 years. That seems optimistic.
I think getting away from the modern "bedroom community" style of subdivision tracts is important to solving the commute issue. We need to focus on interspersing shops for groceries, goods and services as well as some recreation opportunities. Make housing areas more like their own small town area so people Can walk and bike more.
I say more trailer parks, zero-lot line housing for the more upscale moving out of trailers, and then strip malls every three hundred feet…oops, that's N Liberty.
That IS North Liberty. Chasing the property tax base, not thinking long term.
Sad but that is what N Liberty is and only 1 main road for everything (but leads to nothing)