We want to make it easy not to drive.
In years to come the most livable, equitable, and prosperous regions will be those where everyone can get around easily without a car.
The Dane Alliance for Rational Transportation wants greater Madison and Dane County to be such a region. We believe that whatever one’s priorities for making our communities better places to live, reducing the need to drive will bring those goals within closer reach.
We propose a better, smarter, and more balanced approach to transportation throughout our area. We’re determined to challenge planning and spending priorities that leave us stuck in traffic and dependent on our cars—projects that promise greater mobility but produce the opposite.
How can greater Madison become “driving-optional”?
Better transit. Our region needs bus, rail, and other public transportation services so fast, frequent, and convenient that using them becomes as habitual and commonplace as driving.
Less pavement. Our region must fully use the infrastructure it has before adding costly new roads, lanes, and parking facilities, and must make its infrastructure, old or new, more useful to those who walk, bike, roll, or ride transit.
More choices. Our region should offer many different safe, simple, and easy ways to make any given trip or accomplish that trip’s purpose—including multiple ways that require less driving or no driving at all.
Informed citizens can help it happen
We support transportation planning and investment that’s more about people and places than traffic and cars through:
Research. We learn how other communities around the nation successfully encourage car-free travel, then use those lessons and data to foster similar efforts here.
Outreach. We communicate the value and benefits of a more balanced, less automobile-centered transportation system through publications, presentations, and online media.
Advocacy. We engage with local transportation policy through correspondence, comment, and public testimony and invite and equip our fellow citizens to do the same.
Want to get involved?
Contact us: dart@rationaltransportation.org