$78 billion needed to fix country’s transit systems

And there is no real help in sight, according to theĀ The New York Times.

Wow.

And in Wisconsin, we are expanding freeways instead of preserving transit. It is a really sick philosophy: transit riders can wait forever in the heat or cold for their bus; car drivers in their temperature-controlled vehicles should never be delayed at all on the freeway.

What would a basic ethics class make out of that one?

2 thoughts on “$78 billion needed to fix country’s transit systems

  1. Interesting… The Chicago Tribune ran a story yesterday about a poll that stated that, for the first time, suburban commuters expressed a preference to put road expansion and maintenance on the back burner in favor of funding better transit.

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