I don’t understand how you could possibly get that take away from my comment.
Not maintaining existing public transportation and making it dirty, difficult or dangerous to use is what prevents the construction of more. Voters vote against throwing more money into what seems like a lost cause or at least something they wouldn’t use if they had any other option. In the US any class besides the lowest classes typically does so they avoid public transportation and use cars and so it gets worse.
The transportation must be somewhat appealing to the middle class in order for it to be scalable and sustainable from a tax-policy perspective.
I am very pro public transportation! Would love it if ours and the rider behavior on it was held to the same standard as Amsterdam.
I don’t understand how you could possibly get that take away from my comment.
Not maintaining existing public transportation and making it dirty, difficult or dangerous to use is what prevents the construction of more. Voters vote against throwing more money into what seems like a lost cause or at least something they wouldn’t use if they had any other option. In the US any class besides the lowest classes typically does so they avoid public transportation and use cars and so it gets worse.
The transportation must be somewhat appealing to the middle class in order for it to be scalable and sustainable from a tax-policy perspective.
I am very pro public transportation! Would love it if ours and the rider behavior on it was held to the same standard as Amsterdam.