I really, really wish I was joking about that
few routes, infrequent service, are huge barriers. Badly maintained and outdated tech make the problem even worse
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if you're trying to go somewhere odds are the car isn't just the BEST way, but the ONLY way to get there. Can you blame em?
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the problem of state ownership and charity mentality hurts too--to take transit is almost as bad as taking welfare...
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...but even if there were no image problem, it creates a very bad operating mentality: tailoring services to "the poor"...
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...creates a service which is too circuitous to be useful *even for the poor,* while designing a network for general ridership
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creates a service which is useful for everyone, *including* the poor Etc, etc, I could go on here
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