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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

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: highspeedrail; highspeedtrains; mass; masstransit; transit
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To: max americana
I have always told people that you will get a lesson in civics when riding the bus and a study in society.

I homeschooled my son. Once when he was about 10 years old he wanted to ride a bus. So, we drove to the Carlsbad Mall and caught the 302 bus from there to the Vista Transit station and back. Quite an eye opening experience for him. He never asked to ride the bus again.

61 posted on 08/08/2013 9:50:56 PM PDT by RightField (one of the obstreperous citizens insisting on incorrect thinking - C. Krauthamer)
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To: Boiler Plate
"No he never returned, he never returned and his fate is still unlearned."

Wow, It's been a few weeks since I heard that one.

62 posted on 08/08/2013 10:12:11 PM PDT by VR-21 (I'm weary of being lorded over by criminals and gilded degenerates.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

But, God help you if you live in New York.


They don’t believe in God in New York.


63 posted on 08/08/2013 10:17:29 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: george76

6%???

That’s a damned lie and made up statistic...


64 posted on 08/08/2013 10:38:04 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: george76

I have never been on a city bus in my life. I can’t even imagine it.
Been on trains a few times, though, and even subways.


65 posted on 08/08/2013 10:42:44 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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Public transit is fine if you live in places like NYC and Chicago. Even Washington DC is OK if you live near a subway stop and don’t need to come home past midnight. But for the most part, Americans live in pleasant suburbs where the spacing of housing makes mass transportation impractical. And Americans don’t want to be Europeans. We love our big cars and our independence.


66 posted on 08/08/2013 10:50:26 PM PDT by Godwin1
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To: Revolting cat!
74% prefer being stuck in traffic and paying $5 per gallon.

The gas is about $4 today. A gallon of gas will buy you at least 30 miles of travel. A bus fare is $2 for a single ride. If you are traveling less than 15 miles, it is not cost-effective. If your trip is longer you need to pack your lunch, and on some routes you also should write a will.

74% use personal cars because cars are better. The 26% are either too young or too old to drive; some are too poor to own even a junk car, or have nowhere to go. A car is an attribute of a reasonably successful person. It's your personal space that protects you from other people who you may not want to interact with. Do you think Bernhard Goetz would see a car as a worthy investment, given all the troubles that he picked up on a subway train? Mass transit is a major crime area; things are always happening on buses, on trains, and near them.

67 posted on 08/08/2013 10:51:10 PM PDT by Greysard
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To: george76

Notice how they don’t ask questions about government subsidies to the airlines?


68 posted on 08/09/2013 2:04:02 AM PDT by iowamark
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To: george76

In 1971 i took a greyhound bus from Jacksonville to Tampa Florida.
The toilet overflowed, it was hours late.
Bunch of bums were either drinking or drunk.
And it smelled real bad.
My last experience at public transportation.
I can do it better my self


69 posted on 08/09/2013 5:23:35 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) ( Hey Rubio, eat pooh pal))
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To: george76

The only time I used mass transit(subway) was when my car was in the shop.


70 posted on 08/09/2013 5:29:33 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: 867V309
I was on a bus once.

So was I, it was painted bright yellow.

71 posted on 08/09/2013 5:33:22 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
"The only time I used mass transit(subway) was when my car was in the shop."

The only time we use mass transit is when we go to Cleveland Browns football games.

We can park close to the stadium for 25 bucks or more and have to deal with bumper to bumper traffic that moves at a snails pace until we get far from the stadium OR we can park for free at Brook Park station and ride the train all day for 4 bucks each and avoid most of the traffic.

Its a no-brainer for us.

of course living in a town of 6000 we really don't have an opportunity to use mass transit much.

72 posted on 08/09/2013 5:35:54 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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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.

After living in NYC for 57 years and now rural WV for the past 12, it has been my experience that city people walk while country folk drive. That is not a knock on either, just what I've observed. Distances and terrain rule.

73 posted on 08/09/2013 6:00:51 AM PDT by Roccus
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To: Roccus

If it was 20 miles to the grocery store you would drive too but you would do it once a month like I do.


74 posted on 08/09/2013 6:22:20 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Greysard

I took a 150 mile bus trip once. Sure it only cost me $17 but it took nearly 7 hours vs the 3 hours it would have taken me to drive for about the same cost. The bus also dropped me off nearly 20 miles from my final destination despite passing within a few hundred yards of where I was going.


75 posted on 08/09/2013 6:29:09 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek
Grocery is about 10 miles for me now and I go about every two weeks. As I said, distance and terrain rule.
I rode the subway pretty much daily from Sept. 1958 to July 1999...but the stop was a good 15 minute walk from my home. (only uphill one way) I worked as a field tech in lower Manhattan for 20 years and walked EVERYWHERE from Canal St. to the Battery.
Today, the only places I walk to (off my property) are one next door neighbor (about 150 yds) and my neighbor across the road....EVERYWHERE else I drive. That, plus the fact that I used to live on the top floor of a five story walk-up, is what I attribute my weight gain since moving here.
I've recently been trying to walk more, but the hills just kill me, so I DRIVE to the level walking path in town by the river. (LOL)
76 posted on 08/09/2013 6:42:37 AM PDT by Roccus
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To: cripplecreek

On second thought, when going to my next door neighbor’s, I’ve tended to use the lawn tractor lately. lol


77 posted on 08/09/2013 6:45:16 AM PDT by Roccus
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To: RightField

“He never asked to ride the bus again.”

That’s just it. Just like public school, the experience trains you to be aware of your surroundings. Not to have your guard down but to adapt to dangerous situations, idiot people and how to interact and communicate with stated personalities.

My cousin serves in South Korea near the DMZ. He was once told by a retired Green Beret that one of his “training” exercises was to take public transit from area A to area B. Area A to B were known dangerous black neighborhoods. If you are able to navigate through these areas he said, then you can navigate your way through the streets of Baghdad.


78 posted on 08/09/2013 7:06:56 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: Greysard

79 posted on 08/09/2013 9:55:17 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: george76

Disease vector morass.


80 posted on 08/10/2013 7:25:29 PM PDT by Paladin2
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