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Rejuvenate the Public Transportation

The US is behind in the public transportation system, trains are too expensive to travel across country and we have always been an automobile country.

To rejuvenate the system, we would need to:

-Invest in quiet and efficient trains for cities and towns (no one will vote in loud trains by residents)

-High speed trains across country.

-Buses to deliver patrons out of circuit.

-One system plan for all.

The costs could be huge, but linking cities and people across the country, could be a way of reducing traffic, gasoline costs, increase tourism to major sites.

This could also create permanent jobs as business developing around train stops and bus patron needs.

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Submitted by Josh Senecal 3 years ago

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  1. politisal

    I have read (forgotten the source, but can find it if anyone wants it) that mass-transit construction projects create more jobs (and more long=term jobs) than do highway-building projects. So it's good for the economy as well as reducing congestion and having beneficial environmental effects. Win-win-win!

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  2. Josh Senecal

    I would like to see it if you can find it.

    3 years ago
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  3. briamarieb

    Public Transportation is good for the environment, public health, and creating jobs. Remember all forms of alternative transportation when writing policy and budgets (bike, ped, bus, rail, vanpool). It's also important to fund capital projects and help local/state government to fund operating costs. In Seattle, transit agencies are faced with budget shortfalls that can tear apart the service we have today; operating money comes from volatile sales tax revenue.

    Build rail, build bike trails, and support the infrastructure and operation of public transit.

    3 years ago
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  4. Greg Vanderlaan

    Free bus passes for all. Why NOT subsidize the Public Transportation system. That would increase ridership and reduce the number of cars on the road. Fewer traffic jams would improve the quality of life for drivers and increase Miles Per Gallon for those that choose to drive. More bus and light rail commuters would increase the need for more trains and buses, creating jobs for drivers. Extra buses would run at more times improving the quality of service... making public transit more practical for all. We subsidise the Public Library, why not Public Transportation?

    3 years ago
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  5. Josh Senecal

    I like the Idea of an affordable public transportation system; I would use a system that allows me to get to most parts of the country hoping on and off trains and buses.

    However I don’t want a free system and this is way. We all know free is not the case with anything, but more importantly to have personal responsibility and ownership in the system.

    Collectively, there is no reason this country couldn't have a uniform and efficient transportation system that is not confusing and is affordable and safe across the country.

    3 years ago
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  6. Waiting2Trade

    This would create thousands of jobs much like it did years ago when we decided to build highways and bridges after W.W.2 it put Americans back to work. This is a great idea.

    3 years ago
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  7. rsgallaher

    Agreed however Bikes paths that are engineered like the rail roads and highways are a better form of short distance transportation.

    10 miles in an hour is not hard to achieve on currently converted abandoned rails made into bike trails.

    I’m not a fitness freak or heath nut. I’ve tried this out in as bad a shape as I’m in and if I can do it anyone can.

    Note – My father at 83 can do ten miles on a bike on the old rail trails bike paths in Georgia. He is a model of health because he exercised twice a week all his life.

    3 years ago
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  8. Josh Senecal

    I agree, in New England we have converted rails to bike trails and the public loves it. However we can only use ours for part of the year, and most work farther then ten miles away to work. I think with we can have all with todays technology.

    3 years ago
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  9. rsgallaher

    When gas goes to $10 a gallon the poor will need a way to get around for free.

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  10. Josh Senecal

    We will all be poor when that day comes.

    But we all need to contribute no matter how small the amount, free is never free.

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  11. jwelborn3434

    Come look at Houston. We have a VERY expensive light rail system that no one wanted and that mostly provides an air conditioned place for the homeless to sleep.

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  12. rsgallaher

    Miami has one of those modern commuter rails to nowhere that the bumbs can't even afford to sleep on.

    3 years ago
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  13. briamarieb

    Converting rails to trails can help people who work any distance from their home. I know people who bike to their bus stop, their rail station, or their park & ride when the distance is too great to ride the whole way. In the northwest, cyclists use the trail rain or shine and there's very few days each year when it's too icy/snowy to ride.

    3 years ago
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  14. Josh Senecal

    jwelborn3434 and rsgallaher,

    Are your MRTs well used by the public during the week? Who paid for it, was this a state or government project?

    3 years ago
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  15. rsgallaher

    This was a private project. The land was donated and the people that ride bikes donated money to pave some of the trail.

    It goes from Atlanta to Birmingham, AL (Not all paved) but it is a trail away from cars and their mindless drivers that run over people on bikes.

    They are used so much even criminals started using them and they now have police patrols.

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  16. jwelborn3434

    Josh Senecal, The Houston light rail was a local project forced through by the former mayor over the objections of the majority of the population of the city.

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