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

[Fred Schneider]

The rebuttal to that argument is that we don't have a bus for  
everyone who is blind.   No society is perfect.

On Sep 10, 2007, at 3:34 PM, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Fred Schneider wrote:
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>> If you live in a suburban home and commute to a job in a suburban
>> industrial park, then go shopping in a mall, or go to church on some
>> back road, or to a doctor's office in another neighborhood, you can
>> drive there in five to fifteen minutes but even if there is a bus
>> option, it can often take hours and you simply don't use it.
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> Unless you're old, or blind, or poor, or...
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> paratransit is effectively subsidized taxi service. But it's not  
> universal
> and can't and won't service everyone who might use it.
>
> This is the obvious rebuttal to the "we can buy every rider a car for
> less"
>
> Great. I'm going to put all the blind ones in that car outside *your*
> house.
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