Conference Live 2005
Conference Live
2001
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Blue Group
Mind Map
- Three trends, money, accessibility, place/community to live (a sense
of livability).
- Affordability is a big economic issue, environmental issues are important
to a lot of us as well.
- Safety has quite a few dots, safety, caution, knowing how to ride bus/TRAX,
and independence choice.
- Affordability and taxes are linked and affordability and technology are
linked, a break through in technology can have an impact for users.
- As a people we want independence choice, how and when we want to and
yet we want to be safe, they all tie together, with population growth, roads,
freeways mass transportation.
- Environmental issues, we are all concerned about quality of air that
we breathe; the bad things that can happen to us environmentally.
- Everything up there is driven by money in some form or another, the availability
of funding for LR lines, highways, environmental initiatives, back in Washington
given the tax cut recession it looks like there will be less money to go around.
We must be careful there will be popular things we can’t pay for.
- When you see a cluster of dots you see multiple colors, people from several
perspectives see the same thing, this is significant
- Over last week thinking a lot of her parents, mom stayed home, they gave
up a lot, their generation made a lot of sacrifices, they were happy to go
to a movie once a month, we have been very spoiled since WWII in this country.
I drive an SUV, were going to have to make some sacrifices. Looking at what
is important to us, open spaces, livable communities, we are going to have
to sacrifice for the generations after us.
- Great trend throughout the country is in rail transportation, new trend
on map, surges in rail.
- Another line that should be put up there is east/west transportation,
we can go n/s fairly easy now but a lot of people don’t ride LR because it
does not go east/west. The trend would be that most roads that go east and
west are two lane highways, if your going to work or home you have a long
wait.
- The trend is welfare reform, the trend is helping people become more
self-sufficient, one component of this is transportation to places of employment.
This investment could result in a long-term savings for everyone.
- Concerned about more accessible freeways, that’s fine and good but our
brand new freeway is packed already. We have talked about commuter rail to
Davis and Weber County what is the possibility of taking Light Rail there
too. Being a Light Rail operator I am not sure people realize how quickly
we get up to speed and how we can slow down. I am for commuter rail but it
takes longer to get up to speed, I think a lot more people would be served
by a Light Rail system in addition to commuter rail, not that much time added
to your trip.
- People saying most people use the roads rather than alternative transportation.
- Growth in population, we need to move massive numbers of people, road
rage increased significantly while constructing I15, may have slightly decreased
since the opening but it is still there. This is attributed to our population
growing faster than our transportation is.
- Road rage is carrying over to city streets, pedestrian safety in neighborhoods
where there may not be sidewalks and curbs people are driven to the road.
State Street, Redwood Road a number of people are taking their lives into
their hands and not wanting to do that. In regards to safety.
- Trend- getting away from the folks, everyone is working downtown, everyone
has to come downtown, but employment centers are shifting outward. Employment/transportation
issue needs to be addressed, this falls under decentralization.
- Talking about moving people around but not talking about moving goods
around. A lot of truck traffic causes problems for buses and cars. Railroads
too giving us another set of problems. Movement of freight.
- Trend towards multiple modes of transportation, taxi to train to get
to airport and then a rental car. Are those modes linked up in such a way
that they are convenient?
- SL Valley is no longer a Mon. through Sat. workplace but rather 24 hours
7-days a week. Not a lot of transportation on Sun. We need to address this.
Red Group Mind Map
Red Conference Day 1
Mind Map Whole Group Dialog
Group discussion of the meaning of the dot voting on the Mind Map. The
group was asked what they thought or how they felt about the indications of
the voting.
- I see a reinforcement of popular conceptions/ media representations of
transportation, which may not be true.
- I see a lot of issues that we all have bought into and it would be hard
to say that one issue has more support than another.
- It looks like a few issues have a clustering of one color and some that
have a lot of colors shown.
- I see a lot of concern for the senior and paratransit populations.
- It looks like the government and cities don’ t believe there is enough
money to do all of this.
- It appears to be a major concern for the under-served: senior citizens,
minorities, paratransit. It looks like we have an under-served population
for which we are all concerned.
- It seems there are an overwhelming number of dots in the brown branch
compared to other branches, over all.
What does this Mind Map evoke?
- There is enough diversification up there, that if I were made king for
a day and could fix one thing it would be hard to chose. It is hard to perceive
the priorities to identify in what order these issues should be accomplished.
- When I look at the dots, some of the comments seem that they are well
represented, but the colors are also important i.e. did an issue get seven
votes from one person if only one color appears?
- I believe that an issue that receives one color represents an overwhelming
fact for one shareholder in that area.
- I see chaos.
- I feel sad that it shows that we are continuing to act in the way we
have acted for the last 50 years. We behave as if oil is an endless commodity
and we can continue to develop, build, plan and provide mass transit as if
petroleum production will never diminish.
- I see a very exciting part, too. Look at where we have we have come in
even ten years, but also look forward.
- I think that this represents an example of government pushing its agenda
in so many ways: State, Federal, local. If you relied solely on a free market
system, maybe the dots would not be so spread out, but more concentrated because
people would be spending their own money and government wouldn’t be pushing
its ideology on everyone.
- I wonder if there is a pattern that this circle goes in. Does it go forward,
backward, up or down? Is this pattern driven by the dots and if it isn’t can
any of the problems be solved.
- If we solved all of these issues would we come back next year and still
have this many more? I just notice that there are no positive comments on
the map. We just finished the I-15 project, but we want more. We have successful
TRAX, but we want extensions.
- I know how to cure everything. Go back to horse and buggy: no roads,
pollution or power. That’s a cure all.
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