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.
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.
Yesterday the Wall Street Journal …Stopped reading right there.
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.
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,
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.
But trying to use COVID as an excuse for falling numbers of mass transit patrons is, as I said, a bunch of baloney.
People are now used to telework and are fiercely resisting having to go back into the office.
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.
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.
The so-called “central planners” fumbled that one, no?
I'm 75 and my old Boston is gone.
The Sting was a nice reminder.
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.
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.
Why not cut many of the bus lines and mainly run trains? That’d probably save them some good $$.
But but but mass transit is the future!!
It works in the movies!!
C’mon man!!
Agree 100% with the above analysis. As far as DC goes, the new Federal worker entitlement is to work from home. From a Virginia or Maryland suburb. IOW do nothing useful. At least they were useful sometimes when these bums had to report to a physical office.
In contrast, the private sector does monitor the output of those who work from home. And some jobs like coding, can be done from home and with fewer distractions.