According to you, it being profitable is the reason for all those mess.
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According to you, it being profitable is the reason for all those mess.
T. A. Gardner
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Being profitable should be the goal of a transportation system, be it a taxi system, bus system, or other mass transit.
And yet we have total messes here.
How so very shallow.....the goal is to improve our lives.
Sirthinksalot
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It's a damn shame this country does not have a high speed rail system?!! All those tax cuts for the rich, would have help build one and the rich and business paying their fair share of taxes too?!!
Nice graphic. How long does it take to fly that same route?
This isn't about flying. Stay on the topic.
T. A. Gardner
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That's because people with power are more concerned about retaining it and control than they are about cost effectiveness. Here in Phoenix they're building a light rail line down Central Avenue into South Phoenix at the moment. I can see where the city is going with this.
They've also gotten a $25 million dollar grant from Pete Buttplug to build a pedestrian bridge across the Salt River between two light industrial parks. If you look at what they're doing, they intend to force out all the industrial and commercial businesses in favor of high density urban housing and high end commercial businesses over the next 10 to 20 years. It's an evil cabal of government wanting results they want rather than letting the public and individuals decide the growth of the city. It will end badly in the long run, just as it has everywhere else it's been tried.
Not sure what that has to do with this topic?
T. A. Gardner
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Lives aren't improved with mass transit. Individual transportation is true liberation. You go where you want when you want at minimal cost. Mass transit stifles that.
T. A. Gardner
Serial Thread Killer
It is government deciding on how you will live, where you will live, and what your choices for employment are.
T. A. Gardner
Serial Thread Killer
The Left and radical Left.
So are you saying that it results in massive failures? I agree.
I don't understand what your problem is with this.
Ah the perpetual Boogeyman.
The WOKE have been very clear that cars are going away....they will not admit it but this is the reason.....give people a taste of freedom and they might decide that they want more.
T. A. Gardner
Serial Thread Killer
My problem is government keeps pushing this to the tune of billions of dollars a year.
And yet the other countries have been successful while America isn't.
I truly do not understand your problem with it.
Are you suggesting that the quality of life shouldn't be improved here in America because, according to you, it's not profitable?
T. A. Gardner
Serial Thread Killer
Actually, America has been more successful than other countries. The quality of life in America would be improved with greater individual transportation choices rather than relying on taxation and public transit.
And yet the other countries have better quality of life.
You keep talking about the dependence on the transit systems. Why? In those other countries the people enjoy the freedom to drive anywhere.
T. A. Gardner
Serial Thread Killer
And yet the other countries have better quality of life.
You keep talking about the dependence on the transit systems. Why? In those other countries the people enjoy the freedom to drive anywhere.
I don't think so. I've been around the planet more than once and most places suck compared to the US.