After decades of delay, time to move on transit solutions

Building more roads or dedicating lanes is not the answer to Charleston’s traffic congestion. We must remove vehicles and use a more efficient way to commute to work places. How about a system that would get you from Summerville to the peninsula downtown in 20 minutes?

— David Sheehan,

North Charleston resident

My neighbor Dave is a career educator with a background in engineering concepts. He and his wife Ellen moved to North Charleston 13 years ago, and were quickly befuddled by growing traffic congestion and the void of transit planning. Home for 42 years before he retired was Long Island, N.Y., where transit systems are second-nature environments. His was a 10-minute walk to the Long Island Rail Road, a people-mover gateway with a ridership that exceeds more than 100 million passengers annually.

After decades of delay, time to move on transit solutions