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74% Rarely or Never Use Mass Transit
Rasmussen Reports ^ | August 06, 2013

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 ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: highspeedrail; highspeedtrains; mass; masstransit; transit
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To: george76

I live 12 miles from the nearest small town. What good does mass transit do me?


41 posted on 08/08/2013 7:46:09 PM PDT by jimtorr
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To: george76

Not surprising, because a large part of the population doesn’t HAVE a true ‘mass transit’ system where they live, or if they have one, it doesn’t go where they need to go.


42 posted on 08/08/2013 7:46:37 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: george76

I have been on a bus. It was scary.

I’d rather walk or beg for a ride.


43 posted on 08/08/2013 7:48:58 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Revolting cat!

“74% prefer being stuck in traffic and paying $5 per gallon.”

Yes, yes I do.


44 posted on 08/08/2013 7:52:23 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Making good people helpless doesn't make bad people harmless.)
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To: shineon

Mass Transit - what a money trap in Massachusetts.

Let me tell you ‘bout a man named Charley........


45 posted on 08/08/2013 7:59:16 PM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: max americana

Bernie Goetz did what he did for a darn good reason. Note that he was convicted of illegal possession of a firearm, NOT for shooting the black thugs that were attacking him.


46 posted on 08/08/2013 8:01:13 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Revolting cat!

And Epic Beard Man was, indeed, epic.


47 posted on 08/08/2013 8:04:04 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: cripplecreek
City slicker. I could walk from one end of my town to the other longwise in under 8 minutes.

That's when I'm driving real slow across town. :)

48 posted on 08/08/2013 8:20:22 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (NRA)
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To: Revolting cat!

Thanks


49 posted on 08/08/2013 8:21:09 PM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (People in America are still tried in the courts rather than by left-wing protesters or by the media.)
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To: george76

I can’t imagine why people don’t want to join the unfortunates who have no alternative but to sit on vomit-soiled seats amongst vagrants, the insane, and the hopeless DUI cases. You might as well go to the local teaching hospital and do petri dish jello shots.


50 posted on 08/08/2013 8:23:07 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Every penny given to film and TV media companies goes right into enemy coffers. Starve them out!)
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To: george76

Well isn’t that a silly poll? Not all areas are created equal. God I hate pollsters. I wonder if they have any education sometimes.


51 posted on 08/08/2013 8:27:46 PM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: peyton randolph
Mass transit brings ghetto to the suburbs

It used to also bring maids, sitters and nannies but now it brings mostly beggars and ne'er-do-wells.

52 posted on 08/08/2013 8:28:38 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Howdy to all you government agents spying on me.)
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To: Boiler Plate

He never returned, and his fate is still unlearned.....


53 posted on 08/08/2013 8:33:00 PM PDT by biggerten (Love you, Mom.)
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To: Elle Bee; zot

I’m sure that the atheists and anti-Christians will come out against mass transit since it exposes them to a religious service. And we can’t have “Mass” anything if we can’t have crosses....now to introduce traffic circles and get rid of those intersections that look like crosses.


54 posted on 08/08/2013 8:37:57 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: george76

The only time I ever use mass transit it when I visit Europe. If had to live in a city as large as London or Paris, I would use it on a daily basis...what would be the alternative, after all? Thankfully, I live in a town with only 0.1% of the population of such metropolises, and am happy to get around in either my Honda Civic hybrid or Jeep Wrangler Unlimited, depending on the weather.


55 posted on 08/08/2013 8:41:38 PM PDT by Kip Russell (Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors -- and miss. ---Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: george76

I was on a bus once.


56 posted on 08/08/2013 8:46:55 PM PDT by 867V309
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To: george76

Call me when the trains run on time and we can talk.


57 posted on 08/08/2013 8:55:40 PM PDT by mykroar (China and Russia are playing chess while Obamas's playing 52 card pick-up.)
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To: GreyFriar

I’m surprised that ONLY 74% rarely or never use mass transit.


58 posted on 08/08/2013 9:10:55 PM PDT by zot
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To: george76

Woohoo! I finally made the in crowd!


59 posted on 08/08/2013 9:41:48 PM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: george76

Since I am at least 120 miles from any sort of mass transit it would be hard for me to use it.


60 posted on 08/08/2013 9:44:28 PM PDT by Tammy8 (~Secure the border and deport all illegals- do it now! ~ Support our Troops!~)
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