We all want the option of good public transit and our region's lack of a sensible system leaves us isolated in our own sector.

Yet our region has been unable to solve the planning, financial or political obstacles to implement a transit system over the last century.

Friends of Spaulding Court--the community based owner of the 20 unit Corktown townhouse complex--has been busy exploring the connection between housing and transportation. Through an aggressive discounting system for carfree households, our aim is to have an outsized effect on the transportation system.