ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the issues that need to be addressed in order to better align the mechanisms of transport finance with system planning aimed at enhanced access. It discusses the famous 1960s battles between Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses over the nature of urbanism. The solution to the Moses-Jacobs dichotomy is rooted in better understanding the complex ways that the social and political institutions that govern land uses and organize urban mobility are divorced from one another and are, themselves, internally fragmented. As a tangible geographic quality, urban access is the ease with which the friction of distance is overcome for individuals seeking to engage in necessary or desired activities. The experience of cities such as Hong Kong and Singapore suggests the obvious direction of change. Public transport occupies the mid point on this scale between co-location and pedestrian travel and non-motorized travel on one side and private automobile use on the other.
