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Would you ride your local transit system even if it was free?
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It is all too easy to look thru our rose colored glasses. <br /> There is a growing number of low income people who dont have a car. <br />Also the low income people who do have car also have unsafe vehicles and in addition to paying the rent and feeding themselves and there kids have to pay insurance and fuel and car payments. Try doing all this on 300 a week or even less.If we had a viable and free local transit system that would be steping stone for many people to Climb out of poverty. Dont forget here that UMTA and Federal Subsidys of Urban transit came out of the war on poverty. <br />Now that I live in a Rural area(With two small citys Jamestown being about 40,000 and Dunkirk-Fredonia about 25,000) I see the importance of haveing Public transit for everybody Urban or Rural. You cant pull yourself out of your boot straps if you dont have any boots.
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