Young Americans Give up Driving

[Fissile]

Gee! Really? I wonder why? You think maybe obscene gas prices, plus $100K student loans, combined with lack of jobs that pay over $10/hr could have something to do with it?

Who needs a car when you have a smart phone?

[Empress Cheesatine]

And if you live in a neighborhood like mine where there are approximately 35 spots on the street and you're competing with about 300 people that live on the block and the city will ticket you from parking 1 block away from where you have a city permit...

There's not much a point.

[FIPS]

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Solution? Move to the most dense urban area served by mass transit and mass niggers you can find and afford, if not survive.

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[brother number three]

Back to the future:

[Fissile]

Originally Posted by brother number three

Back to the future:

You're not kidding, except now it's called "light rail".

[MadScienceType]

Ah yes, breaking Americans' love affair with the POV is now within the utopians' reach.

They're going to base all these systems on MARTA (Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta) I don't doubt.

Austin has recently gone into huge debt to finance its own light rail system. Portland got one, so Austin had to also. Of course the trains are about 90% empty any given day and for each passenger, you could simply make their car payment and pay for their gas, but hey it's a shiny thing for politicians to point to to prove their Progressive bonafides and that they're Doing Something.

[Empress Cheesatine]

The light rail here is so-so. It started as an obvious pandering to the blacks by the black mayor who built the first rail line from downtown into the hood. Only gangbangers and welfare sheboons actually rode the thing. It didn't get any significant ridership until they built a rail line straight south into heavily white burbs.

[brother number three]

Originally Posted by MadScienceType

Ah yes, breaking Americans' love affair with the POV is now within the utopians' reach.

They're going to base all these systems on MARTA (Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta) I don't doubt.

Austin has recently gone into huge debt to finance its own light rail system. Portland got one, so Austin had to also. Of course the trains are about 90% empty any given day and for each passenger, you could simply make their car payment and pay for their gas, but hey it's a shiny thing for politicians to point to to prove their Progressive bonafides and that they're Doing Something.

My sister recently took her daughter to Atlanta for a sports competition and she had some interesting stories about MARTA, none of them positive.

Some local politicians around here are really pushing for light rail linking New Orleans and Baton Rouge. On the surface it seems like a good idea but I'm not sure that there is a need for it yet, maybe in a few years or if another destructive hurricane hits the area.

The problem is that when one looks at the politicians who are at the forefront of pushing for it, several of them are disruptive negro politicians as well as some white politicians who are always on the lookout for a payoff, in other words, the biggest backers are those who are looking to cash in on it or probably have some control over awarding of patronage positions associated with it.

It may be a good idea but anything that state senator Michael Jackson endorses is something for anyone with any common sense to run from.

[Empress Cheesatine]

Originally Posted by brother number three

Back to the future:

There was actually a trolley-type system here 3x the size of the one in San Francisco. General Motors bought it, scrapped it, and introduced GM-manufactured buses as replacements.

[Empress Cheesatine]

Originally Posted by brother number three

My sister recently took her daughter to Atlanta for a sports competition and she had some interesting stories about MARTA, none of them positive.

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