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Welcome to Citiwire.net! Could public transit be the key to how we develop our 231st century citistates? That’s the intriguing idea that emerges from the report of a blue ribbon commission on the future of New York’s MTA, the focus of my column this week. Interesting to note that big transit agency made Jonathan Rose, a New Urbanist developer and leading environmentalist, the chair of their blue ribbon commission on MTA’s future…. This week’s Citiwire column is by Richard Louv, most famed in recent years as author of Last Child in the Woods and his leadership of the movement to give kids more exposure to nature. But Rich, for many years a newspaper columnist, was a member of our Citistates Group’s 2001 trip to Cuba–on which his column is keyed.