Generations of pundits have argued that operating subsidies enfeeble transit agencies and allow them to run inefficient routes with tons of empty seats. A new study says the opposite is true.
This Just In: When cities are given more money for transit, they surprisingly do actual research on where transit is needed and add transit routes where it is needed and will actually be used.
Pundits everywhere gasp in shock because like the gaslighting pricks they are they assumed everyone is a giant piece of shit like themselves who would piss away money on projects so they could slide more money into their own pockets. They assume everyone is a violently anti-social loser like themselves, and cannot possibly conceive of the idea that people in government jobs actually use their educations to, you know, do their fucking jobs.
I’m shocked, shocked, that the pundits were lying.
Where my dad lives, the bus doesn’t sync with the train. You get to the stop, the train comes and you’re not allowed to cross while it’s in the station. So you actually can’t make the train unless you get off one stop early and run for it to enter the station from the other side
And people wonder why public transit is not as popular
Next train is in 10 minutes, but doesn’t stop at that station. Train after that stops at every stop, so it would take you 70 minutes to get up to the city.
Basically, from home to where I want to go, minimum two hours (let’s not forget public transit after the train). A cab would take me 45 minutes (but also like $80)
This Just In: When cities are given more money for transit, they surprisingly do actual research on where transit is needed and add transit routes where it is needed and will actually be used.
Pundits everywhere gasp in shock because like the gaslighting pricks they are they assumed everyone is a giant piece of shit like themselves who would piss away money on projects so they could slide more money into their own pockets. They assume everyone is a violently anti-social loser like themselves, and cannot possibly conceive of the idea that people in government jobs actually use their educations to, you know, do their fucking jobs.
I’m shocked, shocked, that the pundits were lying.
Well, not that shocked.
The Cato Institute hates this one weird trick
Where my dad lives, the bus doesn’t sync with the train. You get to the stop, the train comes and you’re not allowed to cross while it’s in the station. So you actually can’t make the train unless you get off one stop early and run for it to enter the station from the other side
And people wonder why public transit is not as popular
What kind of wait are we looking at for the next train? 10 minutes? A day?
Next train is in 10 minutes, but doesn’t stop at that station. Train after that stops at every stop, so it would take you 70 minutes to get up to the city.
Basically, from home to where I want to go, minimum two hours (let’s not forget public transit after the train). A cab would take me 45 minutes (but also like $80)
New York spent theirs on more roads