Mass transit is dying in cities around the country

Hotair ^ | 01/11/2023 | John Sexton

[Persevero]

If it can’t make a profit the demand isn’t high enough.

Sorry guyz

As for reducing crime try locking up and executing appropriately felons instead of unleashing them upon us we are safer in our cars.

[T.B. Yoits]

Long overdue. Mass transit only survives where there are no alternatives and as these cities fall farther into decline, the mass transit systems are just rolling hives of scum and villainy.

[Olog-hai]

It can, but government needs to get out of the way. Instead, it operates it and shuts out the private sector via draconian regulations.

[Olog-hai]

Most cities in decline do not have such systems.

[Olog-hai]

Yesterday the Wall Street Journal …

Stopped reading right there.

[Paladin2]

I used to enjoy driving to Mets Stadium and taking a train into Manhattan.

Ever since Bernie Goetz provided Social Justice, I gave up NYC all together.

Let Eric Adams fix the place.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Ever since Bernie Goetz provided Social Justice, I gave up NYC all together.

That was before Rudy Giuliani turned New York into one of America’s safest city! ( yes, eventually ruined by Bill De Blasio, but still, we had 20 years of good times)

[pghbjugop]

Liberalism destroys everything. Their precious mass transit to force us out of our cars and into cattle cars to push us into the ghettos to save their stupid precious climate, stop spreading out into suburbs etc, has completely backfired, now we can live more free out in the country and away from their degenerate existence. Idiot corporations insisting on inner city locations to mass transit their minions will have to come up with another plan. Maybe stop supporting dems. Everything they do, touch, try results in death, destruction, misery,

[Falconspeed]

BART in SF was built in 1972. The new cars lack seats and requires passengers to stand. The low IQ freaks in the cars are repulsive to families and professionals. Sad. BART was enjoyable in the 1980’s and 90’s when families, professionals and bike messengers crowded together.

[T.B. Yoits]

Most cities in decline do not have such systems.

Mass transit includes buses and light rail, both of which are no-go zones in these declining cities.

Subways, like New York City, while less common, are also in decline.

[EinNYC]

Blaming the crime on NYC subways on COVID is a mile high pile of BALONEY. It's the no-bail/no-jail idiocy voted in by the squad of morons known as the City Council. It is responsible for even multiply arrested felons to be turned loose as soon as they're booked, 'cos "black people can't afford bail". To someone with a completely formed brain, the solution would be obvious: don't commit the crime and then, gee, you don't have to come up with bail money. But libtard politicians don't process that way--they have to scrupulously legislate every tiny detail. So you have lowlifes now assaulting people waiting on subways or buses, assaulting people already on the subway or bus, even people just walking down the street and NOTHING HAPPENS TO THEM. They are turned loose in a jiffy to go and do it again to someone else. That this has resulted in the deaths of innocent citizens doesn't seem to matter to DA Bragg and the other Soros-bought-off DAs around the country. So it has become very dangerous to use mass transit; thus, the number of patrons is falling.

But trying to use COVID as an excuse for falling numbers of mass transit patrons is, as I said, a bunch of baloney.

[rllngrk33]

The Covid lockdown accelerated the decline of large urban centers. Companies have figured out how to get work done with teleworking. The need for large offices and mass transit in the cities has been greatly reduced.

People are now used to telework and are fiercely resisting having to go back into the office.

[Dr. Sivana]

Funny how government programs become an end in themselves.

Their “problem” is that people don’t want to use Mass Transit, so it will be harder to fund.

How is that a problem? Fewer train cars/busses, fewer employees, less wear and tear on infrastructure can mean less cost as well as less revenue.

[rllngrk33]

Rampant crime in the cities and mass transit doesn’t help either.

[Fai Mao]

I rode mass transit for 15 years in HK. I cannot blame anyone for not wanting to use it an HK is a far safer city and the system is much cleaner than the counterparts in US cities.

[Mears]

Rolling hives of scum and villainy ?

Nonsense.

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[Wally_Kalbacken]

I fly into Atlanta frequently to see family, who are arrayed in the suburbs north of the city. Years ago, the kids would say - “take MARTA and we’ll pick you up at X station”. Today we refuse to visit unless they pick us up at the airport. Too many scary encounters, winos spilling liquids on you as you ride, rapster thugs making noise and being rude. Fuhgeddaboudit. I’ll never ride that mess again.

[P.O.E.]

The so-called “central planners” fumbled that one, no?

[knarf]

I JUST re-watched "The Sting" after about 20 years, and being a native Bostonian, the 1930's Chicago setting was OH! so reminiscent of my early Boston days and mass transit.

I'm 75 and my old Boston is gone.

The Sting was a nice reminder.