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Re: Why Posters Lie
Author: fkrock
Date: 01-19-2015 - 08:22
Once again posters are comparing apples and oranges about local bus transportation. In the Northeast Corridor streetcars owned by private companies provided local transportation. They paid their own way from farebox receipts. However the universal 5 cent fare was about 5% of a typical daily wage. Then the return home was another 5%. How many people today would be willing to pay 10% of their daily wage for round trip bus transportation?
At one time you could travel almost anywhere in New England by connecting streetcar lines. When buses replaced streetcars, service was convenient like that provided by the streetcars. Gradually local tax support helped pay for bus operation. Compare the population of Boston in 1910 with San Jose. With a much larger original infrastructure base, more convenient local transportation has survived back east than we have on the West Coast. Granted Portland OR in an anomaly.
Today almost all local bus lines are government owned and supported by tax dollars. Local voters with opinions like those expressed by some posters here are not willing to pay for convenient local transportation. So we get what we pay for.
At one time you could travel almost anywhere in New England by connecting streetcar lines. When buses replaced streetcars, service was convenient like that provided by the streetcars. Gradually local tax support helped pay for bus operation. Compare the population of Boston in 1910 with San Jose. With a much larger original infrastructure base, more convenient local transportation has survived back east than we have on the West Coast. Granted Portland OR in an anomaly.
Today almost all local bus lines are government owned and supported by tax dollars. Local voters with opinions like those expressed by some posters here are not willing to pay for convenient local transportation. So we get what we pay for.
