Making Transportation Less Wasteful and Unfair

The Antiplanner traveled from Louisiana back to Oregon yesterday and didn’t have time to write a lengthy post. So here is an op ed for your consideration. It briefly summarizes a report about federal funding of rail transit published by the Cato Institute last week.

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3 Responses to Making Transportation Less Wasteful and Unfair

  1. JOHN1000 says:

    A private bus company? Don’t you know private companies are in this to try to make a profit?

    Too many believe that it is better for a public entity to lose millions or billions (and give bad service) rather than let a private company make a profit (and give good service.)

    Before you scream about my indication of “good service”, remember that if the private company gives bad service, it will lose $ or go out of business. The public entity has no such fears.

  2. transitboy says:

    It’s not currently a level playing field, as some of these private jitney services claim to not have to follow the Americans With Disabilities Act, Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, air quality management district mandates, labor and employment laws that drive up the cost of service, and other laws. The one operating in San Francisco even ripped out wheelchair ramps so they could put it in a bar.

    In any case, it would be extreme to say the least to claim that a handful of buses redesigned to carry only 30 passengers is a threat to a subway system that sends up to ten seventy-five feet long cars every six minutes through a station.

  3. CapitalistRoader says:

    The one operating in San Francisco even ripped out wheelchair ramps so they could put it in a bar.

    What’s wrong with a wheelchair ramp in a bar?

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