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The austin area regional transit Concept
aart> is regional.
The idea is to start with three questions:
- Where will 1,000,000 new arrivals in the next century want to live?
- And how will transit affect everyone's choice?
- How will Austin look in 2056?
If Austin is more compact, we will preserve more land for agriculture, ecology, and greenspace.
Doing so would resemble ECT's "Scenario D," preferred by half the 12,000 people surveyed.
ECT agrees that Scenario D needs "an efficient, effective and reliable
system" of "roads, transit and trails."
The aart> idea is a preferred design for "Scenario D" succeed. The approach would be feasible in Austin.
It is inspired by
one of the world's better urban transit systems, in the populous Bavarian capital of Munich.