We are blessed with a healthy economy, low unemployment rate and a wide variety of entertainment opportunities. Unfortunately, this success comes at a price. While, in our recent past, we were a small, rural community with only a few areas of congestion, those days are gone and not likely to return. More people and more jobs have created a higher demand for housing. However, once these houses are built, the roads become busier.
Busier roads mean more opportunities for businesses, who build more shopping centers.
This means the roads are continually congested with more cars, transporting only one or two people at a time. As a result of this growth, we are beginning to see a strain on our infrastructure. Instead of allowing us to put our resources into maintaining and expanding existing streets, schools, sewers and local services, we have to build completely new facilities. This is more expensive than maintaining the existing infrastructure and our limited resources are now spread out over a larger area. Up until now, the concept of transit has been a tough sell because, as the argument went, we did not have sufficient density to support it.