Left to itself it rusts and "drys up"
If mechanics are not constantly doing PM for instance, the fleet will die ....
Posted on 12/27/2020 3:50:10 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
My son owns a company in Seattle. He has just under 40 developers. His lease expires the end of the month. Not only is he going “all WFH”, but he’s hired his last Seattle developer. They are too expensive. From here on out, it’s guys from flyover country. Just as good and half as much.
” urban residents hate paying for country roads they rarely if ever use.”
The vast majority of those using pubic transportation pay for nothing, and country residents pay far more taxes than the ghetto hood rats in cites!
It's basically a matter of population density and economies of scale.
In Raleigh area public transports are always empty basically. Maybe 1 or 2 people on board these huge buses. Waste of money. Either cut it out or just invest in smaller vans ya know!
Left to itself it rusts and "drys up"
If mechanics are not constantly doing PM for instance, the fleet will die ....
Then the cities will serve their original purpose, as agricultural centers adjacent to rivers.>> Philly was pretty much a manufacturing center early on 1830’s
Deringer had a shop, Baldwin, Curtis publishing after Franklin. Stetson, Denison, Shoemakers, cigar factories, Botany 500, textile mills, Beer, etc.
Mayor’s will simply raise taxes to support it.
Run the Mayors/politicians out on these decrepit rails.
People in rural areas pay far more taxes for the services received than those in cities. It’s not even close.
A farmer living on a gravel road pays 40-50K property tax for ...what exactly? No street lights, no sidewalks, no parks, in many cases no police or fire dept.
Then that farmer pays a ton of Federal taxes that wind up in cities to feed the ghetto rats.
How will the muggers survive if there are no riders on the subway? Who will see the taggers’ magnificent “works of art” if there are no riders?
A few years ago, Hillsborough County voters voted for a sales tax increase, for more routes to the rural areas, but they used it to buy buses - not routes. One Hillsborough County commissioner is fighting the tax increase, because it is not helping the rural areas.(1 route to the southern part of the county - every 90 minutes ).
Another pipe dream of liberals here is the Hyperloop from here to Orlando and Hi Speed Rail to Orlando, Miami and Jacksonville and commuter rail. They have a plan to expand the ferry from Tampa to St. Pete to include stops in Apollo Beach and near McDill Air Force Base and they just got funding to expand the street car line.
No problem. Soon, under SsloJoe, all public transportation will only cost 5 kopeks.
Well played sir!
I lived in Hillsborough County many moons ago when there were far less people, the 50’s.
In the age of work-from-home, transportation infrastructure
could become drastically different.
Add it to gun control, big city padded finances, illegal immigration, offshoring of our manufacturing and a host of Leftist goals.
You still want to go to Broadway shows in NYC. But if Governor Cuomo shuts down Broadway, what makes NYC special is no longer there. Then it’s no longer worth the high cost of living because you can’t enjoy all what the city has to offer you anymore.
And farming is one of the most heavily subsidized industries in the U.S. today.
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