Deacon923
Scooter Banks
A couple good pieces today:
Man walks an average of 21 miles a day to $10.55/hour job. Upshot - if you want to help the working poor, and encourage Americans to get jobs in our sprawling landscape instead of going on disability, vote for functioning public transportation.
But transit is expensive and doesn't pay for itself you say? Well, at least 40% of US roads don't generate enough gas tax to pay for themselves either. And building more and more mile-lanes of roads when we don't have enough resources to maintain the ones we've already got is incredibly fiscally irresponsible.
Man walks an average of 21 miles a day to $10.55/hour job. Upshot - if you want to help the working poor, and encourage Americans to get jobs in our sprawling landscape instead of going on disability, vote for functioning public transportation.
But transit is expensive and doesn't pay for itself you say? Well, at least 40% of US roads don't generate enough gas tax to pay for themselves either. And building more and more mile-lanes of roads when we don't have enough resources to maintain the ones we've already got is incredibly fiscally irresponsible.