Transit: It’s for High-Income People Now
6th July 2018
Really, it always has been. Dallas has ‘HOV” (high occupancy vehicle) lanes but the requirement starts at two people — that’s ‘high occupancy’? — which makes no sense until you realize that (a) me and my driver can use the lanes while (b) Joe Sixpack heading to a job site in his F150 cannot. Then it becomes clear.
Most rail transit systems are based on the premise that the jobs are Downtown and the people leave out some ways in the suburbs, but nobody puts their offices Downtown any more — except major corporations who have always been there and those companies who want that Downtown address for prestige.