The Antiplanner is in Washington DC today to testify before a Senate subcommittee about the role of urban transit in the lives of elderly and disabled passengers. My testimony argues that, as I pointed out here a few days ago, most senior citizens will continue to drive as long as they are able. When they are no longer able to drive, few will be eager to walk the quarter- to half-mile needed to access transit.
Federal Transit Administration plans to extend transit service to 75 percent of the nation’s rural counties, my testimony continues, are expensive and unnecessary. Since Americans move an average of nearly a dozen times in their lifetimes, it makes more sense to ask seniors and others who prefer to use transit to move to places, such as urban cores, that have excellent transit service rather than to heavily subsidize transit service throughout the nation.
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Tomorrow I will be in Lafayette, Louisiana talking to people about tax-increment financing (TIF). Louisiana TIFs are based mainly on sales taxes, not property taxes, yet they take money from schools and other services just as property-tax TIFs do.
I’ll make sure to contact my congressperson to refute what you claim. Mostly, rural transit for seniors will be a demand-response (paratransit, Dial-a-Ride, whatever you want to call it) model and not require them to travel any further than the curb in front of their house. Transit dependent seniors aren’t likely to ride fixed routes which is why this service exists in the first place.
Also, while most (% of total senior population) seniors will remain independently mobile for most of their lifetimes, there is a large number (numeric value not percentage) that will not. For these people it is not about “choice,” it is about need. These are the people who have the most justified reason for subsidized service. We want granny to be able to stay in her community, get to dialysis treatments, and are willing to cough up a few tax dollars because were not cold blooded a-holes.
What is the funding source for the paratransit and Dial-a-Ride services? I think they are largely funded by federal health and elderly support sources, with much more non-local funding than buses and other normal transit.
it makes more sense to ask seniors and others who prefer to use transit to move to places, such as urban cores
Ah.
So Randal has gone to the Dark Side and wants to force people into dense urban areas rather than allow them the freedom to age in place.
Well, Randal, be prepared for a veritable sh–storm of babbling, disjunct harrumphing umbrage from the usual suspects. Unless they are all thrown off by this blatant admission, the first time IMHO it has appeared on this site.
DS
Sandy,
In rural areas it’s mostly funded through FTA grants. For people going to doctors appointments who are on Medicaid, the bill is footed by Medicaid.
In urban areas, non-Medicaid demand-response comes mostly from local sources (usually sales tax and fares), as FTA will not grant operating funds for transit in urbanized areas (200,000+).
Dan, when can all of us be treated to your braying and chirping in person? I would love to see a debate between you and Randal, preferably here in Portland. If necessary, I’ll help facilitate it. Randal is welcome to crash at Casa de Borscht. Dan, you can spend the night enjoying the safety and calm of the MAX train.
Especially the MAX around Rockwood and the Clackamas MAX, two of the safest lines operated by Trimet!
Since no one here cares to defend Randal suggesting that we should be forcing people into density, perhaps they can get behind his Op-Ed in the Denver ComPost about TIF for the joke convention center.
DS
Randal never said that we should “force” people into density.
Though O’Toole wants to force people to drive!