Posted on 08/08/2013 6:36:55 PM PDT by george76
just six percent (6%) of American Adults use mass transit services such as buses, subways, trains or ferries every day or nearly every day.
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three-out-of-four Americans (74%) say they rarely or never use mass transit
(Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com ...
Well, there you go. Now make that 6% pay for ALL of it.
Americans live in places other than just an urban inner city where mass transit is the most cost effective transport.
I take the bus sometimes, but not if I intend to get anywhere on time here in Texas. Usually have to wait 20-30 minutes between stops. It’s one of those things you might do if you only have the leisure for it, or, more likely, the necessity for it. I suppose you might get better use out of it in tight places like New York. But, God help you if you live in New York.
Draw a circle of several blocks around every suburban mass transit station. You’ll invariably spot crime clusters there in contrast with the adjacent neighborhoods. Mass transit brings ghetto to the suburbs in addition to providing inefficient transportation to urban centers.
No surprise to me. I used to ride public buses when I was young and penniless. Sometimes, it was a very dangerous thing to do. Now that I have money and a car, I would never do such a foolish thing. If city managers want people to use mass transit, they should provide better security, clean facilities, and, here’s an idea, let people conceal carry.
No way I would ride public transportation again without those improvements.
Never. Have you seen mass transit in LA?
Sheesh!
mass transit is a socialist dream.
no freedom. limited choices. all run by the govt
Yet we all pay for most of it.
74% prefer being stuck in traffic and paying $5 per gallon.
Mass Transit - what a money trap in Massachusetts.
The trains are slow. The Green Line rails wander all over the map. You can wait 1/2 hour for a train. You can wait another 1/2 hour stopped inside the train underground.
I have seen seats soaked with water from the previous evenings rain shower or who knows what. I know someone who sat in one of those on his way to work.
During rush hour they are jam packed. Whoever thought this was a good idea was criminally insane.
Did I mention the drivers treat you like you hate their mother?
What kind of data is this?? I don’t have the option to use mass transit. If I lived in NYC I would use it every day.
Buses work great when you move as often as I have and the area is unfamiliar......take a day and map...catch a bus and you see where things are without the sweat of driving unfamiliar roads.
Other than that...don’t use them.
I used to ride the bus in Minneapolis when my car was a foot and a half deep in snow and the temperature was far below zero. That was a long time ago.
Once the Baraqqis get the “high speed rail” cranked up, the numbers will increase, LOL.
God forbid if you try running to get to a train waiting on the tracks. 25% of the time the driver will shut the door in your face and smugly drive off without you.
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