Have you thought about why public transit is poorly funded and developed?
Because the automotive industry actively dismantled it in the early twentieth century and then lobbied ever since to redirect funding to highway maintenance? The largest single government project in existence in the US National Highway System.
Indeed. And that automobile industry is supported by a large segregationist population who loves living where the buses full of non-white poors don’t reach. That and there’s physical competition over road space for buses, as they require bus lanes. Bus lanes aren’t car lanes, that’s the point of bus lanes, and installing bus lanes is usually unpopular (due to all the car drivers who don’t want to lose a lane or street parking).
What I’m trying to point out is that all sides of system matters, especially if there’s some kind of democracy going on. Blame is distributed.
Have you thought about why public transit is poorly funded and developed?
Because the automotive industry actively dismantled it in the early twentieth century and then lobbied ever since to redirect funding to highway maintenance? The largest single government project in existence in the US National Highway System.
Indeed. And that automobile industry is supported by a large segregationist population who loves living where the buses full of non-white poors don’t reach. That and there’s physical competition over road space for buses, as they require bus lanes. Bus lanes aren’t car lanes, that’s the point of bus lanes, and installing bus lanes is usually unpopular (due to all the car drivers who don’t want to lose a lane or street parking).
What I’m trying to point out is that all sides of system matters, especially if there’s some kind of democracy going on. Blame is distributed.