How do you improve public transportation? A bus (or rail or subway) service needs to be extensive enough, reliable enough, and fast enough or it will not be attractive to potential riders. But until the service reaches that critical point, those opposed to funding public transit can point the the service and say that no one uses it. Why, then, should we spend more money on a service people don’t use?
I want to use public transportation for my work commute. In fact, my commute is always morally painful. I would love not to drive. I could take a bus and two trains to get to work, costing me at least an additional hour each way, and not saving much money. And each night I risk missing the last train home. Frankly, my wife wouldn’t be thrilled with me catching the last train anyway and coming home through some of the most dangerous parts of Los Angeles at such a late hour.
So how do we improve the situation? If someone like me, who wants to take public transportation, doesn’t, how can we make it attractive to people who don’t even want to take it in the first place?
2 comments:
There's the rub, friend. For one thing, Triple AAA is partly to blame: their lobby pushes highway spending bills and bad-mouth mass transit projects. Funk the gridlock in DC!
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