Current Events > Does the United States need to invest more in public transportation?

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No, It's really not that necessary

people saying no are part of the problem. all because you don't use it , it doesn't mean it won't be useful to others.

So in winter when it's-50F wind chill, how far am I expected to walk to my job? A bus is not going to deliver me to my building.

With better public transportation you'd only be paying $4 for a day pass to get to and from work instead of paying $60+ for 2 uber rides.

In 'Merica, once there's a sense that any given public service is for "the poors", nobody else wants anything at all to do with it.

So in winter when it's-50F wind chill, how far am I expected to walk to my job? A bus is not going to deliver me to my building.

Directly there and directly back is worth the 1500% markup over walking to the bus stop closest to your home (assuming there even is one), and then walking from the nearest bus stop to your workplace, then doing it in reverse at the end of the day (assuming the busses are still running then).

Absolutely, but there's like only a small handful of politicians in the entire country that wouldn't actively fight against the idea.

Which is why we're saying to invest in public transportation so that your nearest bus stop isn't that far away. That's the point.

Which is why we're saying to invest in public transportation so that your nearest bus stop isn't that far away. That's the point.

Like obviously if you live out in the country than no, but if you live in a major metro area and we develop good light rail/train/busses and make streets more bicycle safe it would be tremendously helpful.

In 'Merica, once there's a sense that any given public service is for "the poors", nobody else wants anything at all to do with it.

we need to invest in more walkable cities and towns and public transport but that will never happen the oil and car industry has to much power

Specific stores on every corner, or at least on enough corners for it to be walkable is a tough task let alone getting the land to get this setup and people moved in.

Even without big oil and car fighting it, walkable cities isnt something easy to do in the US. Specific stores on every corner, or at least on enough corners for it to be walkable is a tough task let alone getting the land to get this setup and people moved in. Converting regular cities is going to be insanely difficult.

The only "national" mass transit is Amtrak, and that's a disastrous moneyhole outside of the Boston-DC route.

Can we sit here and say public transit doesn't work when we barely even attempt to invest in it?

Can we sit here and say public transit doesn't work when we barely even attempt to invest in it?

North American cities weren't always horrific dystopian car-centric wastelands. LA used to have the most extensive electric streetcar network in the world. most cities in Canada and the US used to have more extensive transit service

North American cities weren't always horrific dystopian car-centric wastelands. LA used to have the most extensive electric streetcar network in the world. most cities in Canada and the US used to have more extensive transit service

They are now and fixing that is going to be a massive undertaking even without people lobbying against it for money

A lot of this topic is people saying that public transit sucks and is inconvenient now, so we shouldn't do anything to improve it. Baby brain shit.

No, it doesn't work here on large scale. This isn't Europe where everything is right next to each other. Let the cities big enough to get use out of them fund it themselves.

I live in Los Angeles and in the last 30 years, they've built over 100 miles of railway lines.

My dude that is 3 miles a year.

My dude that is 3 miles a year.

My dude that is 3 miles a year.

You got to get over the hurdle of convincing people to pay for improving something they never use and probably won't.