Puerto Rico's Public Transportation: Fixing a Broken System by Tairis Alvarez

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Puerto Rico's Public Transportation: Fixing a Broken System by Tairis Alvarez

Published on Aug 29, 2018

The island of Puerto Rico faces many challenges such as high unemployment rate, rampant violence, and general frustration with the way the country is headed but one of its main problems since the industrial revolution has been its almost reverent attitude towards the automobile. It seems human dignity has been lost to the industrial revolution. In order to find solutions to this problem the cities of Curitiba, Bogotá and Zürich have been chosen as “model cities” because of their successful efforts to change their car oriented cities into more livable places with their public transportation. The principles learned from these cities will be utilized to design a functional transportation system that could be implemented in the metropolitan area of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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