[PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh - think tank blasts possible new transit taxes

[Joshua Dunfield]

Fred Schneider wrote:
> The problem with this concept is that the people who need the service  
> are some of the roughly 300,000 out of the 1.3 million people who  
> live inside the city of Pittsburgh and some of the 1.5 million who  
> live inside the city of Philadelphia, and no where near the entire  
> 5.1 million people in the seven-county PAT and SEPTA areas.

That's true, but you don't have to ride (much less need to ride) to
benefit.  Downtown and Oakland would waste a lot more space for 
parking (and the streets would be parking lots, too) if PAT didn't
run.  Plus, as I mentioned in a response to Bill Robb, you have
people who are employed only because there's a bus to get them to
work.  Everyone's bottom line is better because those folks can
hold down a job.

> Some where in this thread ... and I didn't copy it into this  
> rebuttal ... you mentioned San Jose.

That wasn't me...I wouldn't know San Jose if it bit me.

-j.