tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post4637555968524796208..comments2024-01-16T03:42:46.705-05:00Comments on The Downward Spiral: What Do the Working Poor Need? More Cars!Bill Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17551954408189665078noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-58992879396759416762011-11-07T15:00:07.348-05:002011-11-07T15:00:07.348-05:00@Harry - no doubt you are correct. And as this ar...@Harry - no doubt you are correct. And as this article pretty well shows, even people who ought to know better cannot even imagine things being done any differently.Bill Hickshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17551954408189665078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-91112411546808768362011-11-07T14:56:43.461-05:002011-11-07T14:56:43.461-05:00Most cities do not have the population density req...Most cities do not have the population density required to support effective mass transit. Car manufacturers and the oil companies have influenced planning policies to make public transport unfeasible in most cities. <br /><br />People like the 1/20th of an acre that urban sprawl affords them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-3209925685325473382011-11-06T14:15:03.136-05:002011-11-06T14:15:03.136-05:00@Megadoom - sadly, you're probably right.@Megadoom - sadly, you're probably right.Bill Hickshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17551954408189665078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-34986217294672820352011-11-06T12:37:50.125-05:002011-11-06T12:37:50.125-05:00Most cities are a decade or more away - if they ha...Most cities are a decade or more away - if they had the money, which they don't - from having adequate DC/NYC style mass transit systems to even come close in alleviating the problem with lack of healthcare access, risk losing your jobs using it, and narrow job availability (most mass transit systems don't have full job accessibility either, and so on.) So yeah, it's true that the poor have fewer options without a car in a dwindling job market, it's just the solution being offered is wrong. The solution was decades ago Bill, the nation is bankrupt and so are we for the most part. There is no tenable solution anymore. Count your blessings you have DC, which in my opinion has other problems.Megadoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06507132110939297753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-37103846016923978362011-11-06T12:16:40.216-05:002011-11-06T12:16:40.216-05:00The hardest part for me in all of this when I enco...The hardest part for me in all of this when I encounter people like that professor who are in absurd denial of reality on the ground.<br /><br />Thing is their absurd denial of reality has a very short shelf-life.<br /><br />That's where I find my solace.John Andersenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17222958547864356881noreply@blogger.com