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Alien epiphany to suddenly realize that those regions encouraging these actions is actually relatively micro. Accordance with geographic scope of miles. Truly incredible. On the contrary, when you enter mainland Europe, Asia, Middle East there are much less widespread issues. Able to support tons of individuals empowering themselves while not possessing a Driver’s License. False correlations on ignorance for the fools trapping their own ideas of freedom in the wrong suburbs. Urbanites are naturally bright optimistic with incorporating such sufficiently ample variant alternatives. Foreign wisdom, exclusive well made finances wealthy countries are at top ranks in this article: (Literally just one sole exception out of virtually every). There is accurate evidence to opposite reversals of reality. Monthly annual salaries rich fortunes right into public transportation friendly, and multinational poor not having these options deep down:
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Originally Posted by nei
Other than high speed rail, few transit systems pay for their operating costs anywhere in the developed world outside of Asia. Partly by design, a government could raise the fares but chooses to subsidize it. While I think some posters here exaggerate the subsidy roads, highway construction and maintenance can be expensive as well.
The London Underground covers 85% of its expenses from fares, but fares are high. Crossrail, London's plan to connect commuter rail line is a huge money hole, but probably worth it. When you mean transit-oriented growth, you mean where the developer pays for the cost of transit expansion? Not completely fair; do developers pay for the cost of an extension of arterial roads or freeways (they sometimes do for local roads)?
Theoritically, the subway extension of this project is expected to paid for by property taxes from any development. Might be other instances where this system is used.
Actually, Vancouver's Skytrain covers its operating costs and some of its capital costs.
In terms of Transport for London, 68% is spent on the everyday running costs of the network and 32% on improving it for the future.
Also, looks like the operated didn't really segregate as much as it just turned a blind eye and let the Hasidic clientele do what it wished. On a tangent, I find it rather bemusing that it isn't a private route. Then again, I'd say the same thing about NYC's million dollar taxis. It's going to suck when that bubble eventually does burst.
Wow, it looks like that day is already here thanks to uber0
False correlations on ignorance for the fools trapping their own ideas of freedom in the wrong suburbs. Urbanites are naturally bright optimistic with incorporating such sufficiently ample variant alternatives.
LOL. I could not have said it in a more poetic manner.
Only dumb people look down on public transportation. It's okay if it's not your thing, but to think it's just for "undesirables" is so silly
Most people on public transit are totally normal (yours truly included) but you do get a disproportionate amount of people who are undesirable to be near (usually due to hygiene), who you are then stuck sharing a small space with. It's absolutely a downside of public transit. I'm a fairly big public transit booster, but it's a problem to be acknowledged and solved.
If we want more people to embrace using public transit (which in turn makes the system easier to maintain and scale both financially and politically), solving or ameliorating the problems caused by a small but impactful portion of riders would go a long way. Consistently enforce rules against skipping fares, eating on the bus/train, and kick off the people using it as a rolling homeless shelter + install cameras to watch potential crime and aggressively search+prosecute when seen and you'd get a lot more buy-in for using and funding the systems.
Many bus-only transit systems are designed to discourage use. Bad routing, rundown buses, poor maintenance, even the attitude of the drivers. And it has been successful, keeping off all but the bottom of the barrel. Self perpetuating since most of the riders are not registered to vote and encourage investment.
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I often take the bus to work from my home to Seattle. Since it’s an express that makes stops only in Sammamish, Issaquah and Mercer Island before getting to Seattle, the riders are in the $100k + income range. Since they eliminated the ride free downtown (city of Seattle stoped subsidies) we never get low income people on our buses.
I often take the bus to work from my home to Seattle. Since it’s an express that makes stops only in Sammamish, Issaquah and Mercer Island before getting to Seattle, the riders are in the $100k + income range. Since they eliminated the ride free downtown (city of Seattle stoped subsidies) we never get low income people on our buses.
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