Columbia residents push for better transit system; changes may ease traffic

Improvements to Columbia?s transit system could ease the congestion expected to accompany the redevelopment of downtown Columbia into an urban center, some residents and local leaders said.

Columbia could not support the maximum level of proposed growth ? up to 5,500 additional apartments and up to 6.5 million square feet of office space ? according to a traffic study by Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin Lopez Rinehart Inc. in June.