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Would you ride your local transit system even if it was free?
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I live in a semi-rural area in Chautaqua County NY which is about 40 miles west of Buffalo. We have Commuter Bus service that is subsidized by the state of New York.(Which by the way used to be a train) We are not Populated enough to make mass transit viable so its mostly used by the handicapped and Poor. Furthermore Buffalo is so sprawled out that even if there was a train passenger would still have to transfer to get out to the Suberbs were the jobs are in Amherst. Commuter trains work best were there is a strong downtown were people still work and shop. The Problem with LA is that the last time I was there is that its downtown is not nearly as dence as New York Or Chicago. <br />Its trains were used a lot by domestics to get to cleaning jobs in Hollywood from San Bernadino. There is a lot of low income people in LA and the Metro provides a valuble service to get around a area but unless LA builds more housing and retail around its stations and make the system easy to use ridership probaly wont increase
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