>Z is complaining about higher gasoline prices, so is he willing to pay double our current prices to incentivize people to use public transportation?
If the money were being used to improve our public transportation system in a way that would make it better for me to use public transportation than to drive, I would be fine with that. However, in my current situation (because I live in a city of 100,000 rather than one of 1,000,000+), it takes me about twelve minutes to get from my house to my office. It would take me probably two hours to take a bus (well, multiple buses) because my office is in the suburbs. It's nearly a ten minute walk from my house to the bus stop alone. Public transportation in my area can't work for me in its current form. There are few places where I can get to quicker via public transportation than I can by car. One of those is New York City, and I normally take Amtrak to get there. Other than NYC and maybe Montreal, for me, it's faster to take a car anywhere closer than probably Toronto (which is about eight hours away by car).
But the money's not going to build better public transportation; it's used to line the pockets of Exxon, its executives, and its investors.
>It isn't that we don't have it; it is that nobody wants to use it because gasoline is so cheap here. But to hear Z tell that isn't the case.
Some large cities do have it (and it gets used there!); most of the country does not.
>The Left, as usual, is all over the place.
I'm not sure how our positions are inconsistent.
-Z |
