Posted on 01/11/2023 9:18:11 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Are they asserting that "homelessness" is a subset of "crime?!"
Poorly written article!
Regards,
I think it was on the old Dick Cavett Show that Ralph Nader, who had killed the Chevy Corvair, was asked what car he drove. He said he had no car and tried to use public transportation in all the cities to which he travelled.
Socialists cannot allow public transportation to die. Their subjects will need it.
Gas cars will be banned and the oil producers and refiners bankrupted. EVs will turn out to not work well. Serious flaws. Same with self driving cars.* Like Thalidomide and CPAP inhalers they will turn out to have serious flaws and will be ended as bad ideas. I won’t embarrass the corrupt medical profession by mentioning Covid jabs now. Oops, I just did.
*Story today of 8 car collision caused by self-driving car.
Past time to move along....
Except in really high class areas (and no guarantees there, either) it is not a good idea to stand waiting for the arrival of a bus or train with the career criminals and gang members and junkies sizing you up and making decisions as they drive by in their cars.
People get painfully beaten and murdered that way.
This is not looking at the positive sides of public transport. Today your chances of being murdered on public transit or greatly increased, which means you’ll never have to take public transit again. Win win.
Do you think Nader really had no car?
One of thw symptoms of COVID is it kills bail dead.
RE: Do you think Nader really had no car?
So you’re saying in effect Nader was a bald faced lowdown liar? Then I agree. An anti-American, anti-capitalist Commie.
One of my best buddies in high school had a Corvair and we guys loved that car.
I searched for about 15 minutes and was not able to find a car Nader drove anything else related. Searches were flipped to say things against Corvairs, car safety problems and, news to me, against self-driving cars.
Due to type of leadership rather than presence of buses and trains, which as I mentioned earlier ought not be owned and/or operated by the government. The only type of “public transit” that exists in Detroit, for example, is buses.
The removal of electric trolley cars (today misnamed “light rail”) and replacement with buses was once sold as a way to remove such type of transportation from the hands of monopolistic utility companies and into the hands of private bus operators, ironically enough. And once they “failed” due to government policies, right into the public sector they went.
COVID-1984 jabs are not the only embarrassment upon government-run “health” systems, of course.
The Corvair was no different from the old VW Beetle; the front tires were inflated by design to a lower air pressure than the rear tires and would handle normally when so inflated. Nader’s lies about the Corvair ought to have been more transparent to the public at large.
Needing less office space will result in savings for businesses, so they may not want many employees on site anymore.
True, but without him, we would have had President Gore That thought makes my blood run cold.
I don’t attribute W’s victory to Nader.
MARTA = Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta
I would ask how much of their debt is pure union. Union pensions, extortionate wages and benefits for very little productivity. They are running out of other people’s money. The dems will save them because their existence is required for democrat lack of car ownership.
Why not cut many of the bus lines and mainly run trains? That’d probably save them some good $$.
True, the Democrats did not completely master the art of stealing elections until more recently.
New Jersey allowed private companies using former school “short buses” to compete with NJ Transit-run local routes in Hudson and Passaic counties about two decades ago, and those proved more popular and even profitable contrasted to the state-run unionized routes they ran parallel to.
A friend of ours was a juror in a lawsuit against MARTA some years ago. She will NOT go near the system as a result of what she learned about violent crime on MARTA from that experience. Can’t say I blame her.
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