I don’t have any buses or streetcars are trains that are going to pick me and my children up at my rural home, drive me 15 miles to do my shopping, load my bags, and return me home.
And when the school nurse calls and asks me to pick up a sick child - no public transportation will do that for me either.
The government also is not going to cart my kids around to their various activities - productive activities that keep them busy so they don’t wind up downtown (where the public transportation is) painting graffiti, skateboarding, drinking and smoking pot.
Amen, sister. the only public transportation in my village are the two feet on the end of our legs......rural America still exists, and we need cars and trucks.
There ya go, thinking as an individual, or as a family, and not as “a village”.
Such thoughts will have to be “re-educated” out of you.
That’s the elephant in the room which the pols and the media are completely ignoring.
And it’s right in their face.
Inner cities are out of control with drugs, crime, and nobody with any choice and in their right mind would send their kids to inner ccity schools.
Clean up the corrupt, totally failed school systems, crack down hard on crime, cut people off welfare, and a lot of people probably would move back to the cities.
All ‘good’ cities -— like Paris, Toronto, and San Antonio TX have lively downtowns, well-policed, no graffiti. Maybe the school systems are not so great.
And it’s because of tourism, but still.
But will they clean up the inner cities? When hell freezes over and the corrupt city councils are taken away in manacles.