New Ridership Record Shows U.S. Still Lured to Mass Transit
8th December 2008
C’mon, do you seriously think you’d see a headline in the Washington Post saying, “Ridership Down Because People Think Mass Transit Sucks”?
But economically, this is no surprise — who wouldn’t prefer taxpayer subsidized mass transit to pay-for-your-own transportation, especially when local government are spending the money that they ought to be spending on repairing and enlarging roads on their favorite create-more-union-jobs projects like mass transit?