[TurboZamboni]

But cars are evil planet-killing death machines! Trains will solved all our "sprawl" problems.

[knarf]

Every boy since the invention of the infernal combustion engine was invented knew this and used it to wheedle a car into his possession.

Girls were happy to ride with us until they got uppity and wanted their own.

Is this a study that actually got paid to determine?

I'm in the wrong business.

[MCF]

I check out the “Jobs” section on craigslist from time to time. One of thing that is prominent in the ads is “reliable transportation”.

[Chode]

problem is, WE will be the ones that have to pony up for the cars, insurance, tags, inspections and maintenance of said cars for the poor...

[rightwingintelligentsia]

This means they probably want to give the poor “Obamacars” next.

[Aevery_Freeman]

Several crucial differences emerged between families that had access to a car and those that did not. The families with cars moved to neighborhoods with less poverty and were more likely to stay there. They lived in neighborhoods with less unemployment, higher median rents, more access to green space and lower levels of cancer risk. By the end of the government's survey, these families also lived in neighborhoods with better-performing schools.

They are describing suburbia - lefties hate suburbia. Unless, as it seems, they believe that the populations should be switched.

[Gaffer]

But, for the ‘poor’ now, personal mobility is a right. Just like TANF, SNAP, WICs, Section 8, ObamaPhone, UIC, EITC and all the other forms of welfare and private charity.

When it is THEM that gets, who the hell cares about the environment. The few (growing larger everyday), the chosen, the defiantly demanding entitled. Nothing else matters.

[duckworth]

Bikes! Always cracks me up. Uppity smug academics who watch old “films” are obsessed with images of the european proletariat pedaling to town ringing their little bicycle bells. How romantic. How superior.

[Mich Patriot]

Obama cars coming soon! Having a car is a basic right, just like a phone and healthcare! /s

[IronJack]

Now a car will become a constitutional right, just like cable tv and an obamaphone.

[catfish1957]

More research money spent to prove something blatantly obvious. Up next.... $5M to prove water is wet.

[BobL]

I suggest that people here take SCREEN SHOTS of this article...it will not be posted very long.

[IMR 4350]

I’ve got a great idea, I call it “cash for clunkers”.

Let’s offer people that are wealthy enough to buy a new car cash for their good reliable used car.

We’ll take the good reliable used car, turn it into junk and deny people that can’t afford a new car good reliable used cars for transportation to work.

We’ll drive the price of used cars, even cars that really are pretty much junk, through the roof and make them so expensive people can’t afford to get good reliable cheap transportation to work.

Since these people won’t have any way to get to work they will get on the govt dole and vote democrat.

Gosh I’m smart.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”But it turned out that much of the opportunity in places with better schools, lower poverty and less crime is hard to unlock without a car, the study found.”

Here in Maryland they move them from the city to nearby by giving them section 8 then they provide them subsidized bus routes that they charge us taxes for.

I just assume they stay in city and cut my taxes.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The jobs have moved out to suburban malls and office parks, away from inner cities where civilization has ended. And by either luck or design, the bus routes do not go there.

For any person trapped in those areas who truly does want to get a job and start climbing the ladder out of poverty, a car is just about an essential.

There are many faith-based charities where you can donate your old car to help such people.

[fruser1]

Good thing the gov just mandated the use of backup cameras.

We first thought mandating air bags would make cars so expensive that the poor would not be able to afford them.

NOW we can really slam them.

BWAH HAH HAH HAH HAH!

(do I really have to say sarc)

[virgil283]

Tz Good post....Many of us grew up riding public transportation. It was wasteful to the point of being stupid.

You never could depend on it being on time so you had to get up an hour early so if you missed the first bus you could get to work on time anyway and the same coming home.

If you wanted to go some where you still faced the prospect of a long walk from the stop and the a long walk back in all kinds of weather.

Having a car is the first step out of poverty.

[BonRad]

say- a couple years ago+ MA Gov Devil Patrick’s admin was awarding cars to a couple dozen central/western MA welfare recipients exactly for these reasons...

[HamiltonJay]

Mobility is freedom, freedom is power.... Why do you think leftist hate it?