Mayor Moncrief’s State of the City Address: Car-Centric Planning a Blunder

by Fort Worthology
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Business as usual is dead!
North Texas requires a transportation overhaul. No more Band-Aids, no more patches—a complete overhaul!
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Frankly, I’m tired of talking about this. This afternoon, workers at BNSF…employees at Lockheed Martin or Bell Textron…even many of you in this room will leave work and then sit…and sit…and sit in traffic. It’s a frustrating daily routine that carries a great cost once you consider the impacts to our quality of life, our environment, our air, and our ability to attract and keep new business investment.
If this is a mobility crisis—and I believe it is—then it must be treated like one!
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