Posted on 01/11/2023 9:18:11 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The route I live on is Monday to Friday route. There is an another bus route a few blocks away that operates on the weekends. From what I can tell, they could close down the route next to me or reduce the bus size to something like a bus operating from a seasoned citizens home. Deviant behavior isn't really an issue here. That said, there is no way in hell I would catch the Amtrak to Chicago and then take the blue line to O'hare for a flight...
I don’t know if they would have gone to Gore, for my part. Fraud goes back that far anyway, even though it was far more surreptitious then.
So-called “mass transit” is far older than sixty years. The designs go back to the turn of the twentieth century. Government takeovers have the bad precedent of NYC, when all of the private subway systems were taken over by the city, primarily by forcing them to accept an artificially-low 5¢ fare for decades; there was one system that was run by the government from the start called the “Independent” system (ironically) that had unfair advantage over the other two operators.
NYC is unique, since post-1900 buildout and housing are built around the subways. We still see people from New York City (my hometown) who want to move here but who have never owned a car.
Yes if I were king it would be bid out to private companies for five year contracts.
Yes, of course you’re right. And you have some interesting stories about that time... The ‘hard’ public transportation is over a hundred years old and it was well designed for the time. Subways, railroads and starting in the 50’s our interstate systems.
That said, public transportation has deteriorated since then. Partially because the people designing it don’t use it. My theory why large city buses have their windows covered with ads is to stop citizens from seeing a bus bought to transport 60 people driving around town with four or fewer passengers most of the time.
That’s not how the subways and elevated railroads got their start here though. Continental Europe was like that, a lot of countries.
Have the gov sell/ lease them all and let private businesses take over and run it.
I would think it would be profitable w/in 5 years. Cleaner and safer.
Add to that it is a massive gov nepotism fiasco with huge life long health and gov supplied pensions.
I live in MA…..last rode about 3 years ago……don’t get around much anymore,age related.
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