Transportation Vision for My City
By Frank Gould
There is a fair city named Lebanon
whose by-ways have long known congestion
let’s make positive change
across the whole range
from bike-ped to car to ten ton.
Let’s plan what is good for our town
start where traffic jams seem to abound
on routes 120 and 12A
and side roads on the way
change the flow and end our big frown.
Public views have been changing o’er time
mixed-use is now favored as prime
let’s incentivize pools
for commuters and schools
integrating transport systems’ sublime.
We’ll make our streets safe for our kids
with sidewalks and street calming grids
we’ll design complete streets
including bus seats
and help put carbon gas on the skids.
The planning board needs to take note
whenever they’re planning a vote
look at flow vs. calm
residence, mall, even farm
don’t only float the developer’s boat.
Now it’s time for doing the right thing
coordinate growth with regional planning
partners public and private
air, land, other things transit
let’s keep Lebanon growing, Ka-ching.