#Transit should run at the same frequency on weekends as it does on weekdays. I understand that ridership is less, but it’s not like highways and major roads get smaller during times of less traffic.
Are there any costs to #LasVegas and #Nevada taxpayers in putting all of your chips on a sweeping "public transportation" system attached to a mercurial, serial liar like #Musk?
Any chance that today's "no taxpayer money" will not be true tomorrow once Musk has his hooks into your city and county?
Good morning everyone! It’s nearly 5am, I’m standing at a lonely bus stop and I’m in my way to try and visit every train and Metro station in Montreal in a day.
Follow along here to share in the mirth, and we’ll also see how long a single Mastodon thread can become!
There is not a #scarcity of funds for #transportation in the US. We spend tens of billions every year on #road construction and maintenance. That's a policy choice.
We could choose instead to pay for other things, like robust #PublicTransit & comprehensive supports for #walking and #bicycling.
Don't let anyone tell you there's not enough $. We have gobs of $. We just spend it to subsidize the least economically rational form of transportation.
@davidzipper The people who see public transit as primarily "transportation welfare" for the poor often prioritize making it free. The people who see public transit as alternative mass mobility often prioritize making it better.
Everyone would love both free and better, but if I had to prioritize, I would personally go with "better". I think "better" is more likely to fight climate change. No one will stop using a car for an unreliable service just because it is free. #transit
Besides this project being an affront to actual durable, efficient, green and transformative public transportation, the public safety issues of this system remain largely unresolved in my view - particularly on the evacuation plan in any given stretch of this system, particularly with those with #mobility needs.
If I were a Clark County, #Nevada resident, I would be livid at the hand-waving here.
They are making us come to the office for no reason so I am going to ride #transit for no reason. It's an odd #commute that takes a slow train and a fast bus and goes from the city into the burbs. #rtd #denver#wagonwheel#bus#business
I kind of doubt anyone at NY's MTA follows me, but if anyone is interested, I have just put up my own NY MTA bot, which is putting out all MTA service alerts (well... hopefully... just wrote the software last night/this morning, LOL) It's at @nymta_bot#NYC#NYMTA#NY#transportation#transit
The #MTA is off twitter! If you live in NYC or use the service
(including metroNorth, CT friends!)
Please contact the MTA and let them know they would be more than welcome on the fediverse. They could probably have their own instance "@mta.info" just the way it ought to be.
RT @BrentToderian
Lets commit to never let the lazy attack that “public transit is subsidized” go unchallenged. #Transit IS publically paid for, as public services are, but with an impressive resulting return on investment, & actual public cost savings.
In Bloomberg CityLab, I interviewed historian Nick Bloom about The Great American Transit Disaster, his new book examining US transit’s 20th century decline.
Main lesson: Terrible policy choices -- not just the rise of cars -- are essential to the story.
“The #Gardiner East Expressway has approx 210,000 people on it each weekday. [Currently] City is planning to spend $2 BILLION to save those people 3 minutes drive time.
The TTC has 1.9 million daily users. City is planning to cut TTC transit service and increase wait times by 3-5 minutes.”
The eight reasons ending car dependency benefits families.
Matt Caffrey @heartlandurbanist Says: "While popular culture may tell us that families need large lawns, houses, and SUVs, urbanism has a lot of benefits for children and families."