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Originally Posted by MysticCat
While I see your point and agree with much of what you say, there are not-so-small cities across the country where public transportation really isn't a viable option right now. The public transportation that we have doesn't come anywhere near my house -- given the distance I would have drive to where I can park my car and take public transit, I might as well drive to work. And that's before considerations of things like getting the kids to school. (We could take them to where they could get a ride on a school bus, but that ride would be about 1 hour+ each way for a school 4 miles from the house and on my way to work, so . . . .)
While our lack of alternatives well may be because of the choices that people have historically made that favor having one's own car, making public transportation or low public priority in the past, the reality is that it will be many years before I or many (most?) of the people where I live, will have any viable, regular alternative to driving my own car.
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I agree, and probably overstated my case a touch, but why aren't we having Congressional hearings on this? Where's the funding for public transportation (or where is it going)?
It's a charade.