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Indianapolis also ranks poorly in the mass transit arena. Indy has a metro area of around 2 million people, however it’s bus system operates a paltry 150 busses over 28 routes. Compare this with Louisville KY’s (roughly half Indy’s metro size) bus system that operates 240 busses over 51 routes. How can this be???...
Light rail discussions have frequently come up over the past decade however tax payers routinely vote with opposition. Many state that Indygo (Indy’s bus system) frequently struggles with ridership. Well I guess it would when it operates a system that is nearly half of a system in operation within a city half the size of Indy. LOL….
Indianapolis also ranks poorly in the mass transit arena. Indy has a metro area of around 2 million people, however it’s bus system operates a paltry 150 busses over 28 routes. Compare this with Louisville KY’s (roughly half Indy’s metro size) bus system that operates 240 busses over 51 routes. How can this be???...
Light rail discussions have frequently come up over the past decade however tax payers routinely vote with opposition. Many state that Indygo (Indy’s bus system) frequently struggles with ridership. Well I guess it would when it operates a system that is nearly half of a system in operation within a city half the size of Indy. LOL….
Not to mention Indy sprawls like crazy and many parts lack sidewalks. I always see bus stations randomly in the lawn of some store or on the corner of a street somehwere void of sidewalks. How are people supposed to get to the bus stops
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Not to mention Indy sprawls like crazy and many parts lack sidewalks. I always see bus stations randomly in the lawn of some store or on the corner of a street somehwere void of sidewalks. How are people supposed to get to the bus stops
It makes no sense. I never paid much attention in most cities I've visited or lived in, but I have to commend the Boston suburbs. I never rode the buses there, but I was impressed by how they actually went straight up to the door of stores in strip malls to pick people up and drop them off. I'd never noticed that anywhere else. In Houston, people are expected to walk what seems like miles across a parking lot--you know, dodging cars--to wait for the bus... on a street with no sidewalk or bus shelter... in the blazing heat... with their purchases in hand.
Surprisingly the Duluth, MN (City 85-90 thousand) Metro (275,000) bus system is pretty good. College students (Duluth has 5 colleges and about 25,000 students) take the bus anywhere for free. They are planning a new Hub station in prep for the future high speed rail to connect with Minneapolis downtown. Bus shelters are heated and located along side walks (imagine that!) and they drop you off at the front door of shopping centers.
The city is also incorporating bike lanes and trails into it's comprehensive plan and adding side walks to streets that have not had them (why they never did is beyond me) in order to encourage more walking to shops (see if that works) and adding neighborhood park and rides. I think that is pretty good for a city this size.
Any city in California. It's not that Californian's wont spend money for mass transit. California has great rail systems. People here just wont ride it. An average California commuter will be more then happy to drive his gas guzzling SUV for two hours through some of the most hellish slow moving traffic. That would drive most other people out of their cars and onto mass transit in a second. But not in Californian. Californians will drive for two hours through stop and go traffic, to get into the city. Pay a $6 bridge toll. Then spend another half hour looking for a parking garage to park in, and and pay $30 for the privilege of parking there. And it will never occur to them that they could have taken the train for $7, and gotten there in half the time.
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