Sunday, July 11, 2004
FAQs: Why Not Just Buy Them Cars?
Frequently Asked Questions
Projected Costs
Heartland Institute Op-Ed
There are at least two related reasons to consider providing automobiles to low-income transit riders. The most important is introduced above --- that automobility improves employment opportunities and the prospects for entry into the economic mainstream for low-income households. But first, there is the issue of transit's exorbitant costs.
There is a crass implication is that low-income citizens should be denied opportunity to keep traffic congestion from getting worse. I could not disagree more strongly with this. If more traffic congestion is the price of greater opportunity, then so be it. Moreover, as indicated above, comparatively little additional highway investment would be needed.
Projected Costs
Heartland Institute Op-Ed
There are at least two related reasons to consider providing automobiles to low-income transit riders. The most important is introduced above --- that automobility improves employment opportunities and the prospects for entry into the economic mainstream for low-income households. But first, there is the issue of transit's exorbitant costs.
There is a crass implication is that low-income citizens should be denied opportunity to keep traffic congestion from getting worse. I could not disagree more strongly with this. If more traffic congestion is the price of greater opportunity, then so be it. Moreover, as indicated above, comparatively little additional highway investment would be needed.
Comments:
Yoy've responded to Litman.
So what's your response to Setty's broadside against you at www.publictransit.us? It is rather scathing.
So what's your response to Setty's broadside against you at www.publictransit.us? It is rather scathing.
Long ago stopped reading Setty. If there's anything you would like to clarify that he raises, please advise. But I havn't time for incivility.
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