Don’t Trap the Poor in Second-Class

Some have argued that subsidies to transit are “socially just” because they help poor people, and some have even gone so far as to say that social justice requires that transit be free. But an opinion piece in Friday’s San Antonio News Express responds that transit is second-class transportation. Those who want to help low-income people should instead focus on helping them acquire first-class transportation, namely automobiles.

Automobiles are so much superior to transit that, except in New York City, it is overly generous to call second class. Steerage is more like it, since transit is so much slower, inconvenient, and less comfortable than traveling in your own private automobile. (I would have used the word steerage in the headline, but I was told that many people wouldn’t know what it was, at least out of context. I guess it’s been a long time since Titanic came out.)
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San Antonio is the largest urban area in the United States that hasn’t succumbed to the fad of building nineteenth-century rail transit. Some people would like to change that. Maybe this op-ed will help dissuade them.

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