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<p>[quote user="blue streak 1"]</p> <p>[quote user="Sam1"]</p> <p>I agree with taxpayer in-city transit. A significant percentage of it provides transportation to low income people. I have a problem having the taxpayers pick-up part of the commuter cost for a Wall Street Bank earning a half a million a year.</p> <p>[/quote]</p> <p><strong>trying to balkanize again? Cities in different states are sized differently. Take Houston which is a very large one city in texas. In NJ that area would take in maybe 100 towns or more. </strong></p> <p><strong>New York city is actually composed of what was 5 cities at one time . WOULD you have had those 5 each with their own transit system?</strong></p> <p><strong>Local Transit, commuter rail, AMTRAK are all some kind of regional service providers. These entities shuld not be subject to an artificial political division but be population driven. </strong>[/quote]</p> <p>OK, change it to local transit or bus transit or whatever. What does your comment have to do with whether wealthy suburban commuters should pay the full cost of their commute?</p> <p>Most of the commuters in north Dallas that are commuting into the CBD use the Dallas North Tollway. They are coming in large part from upper class neighborhoods. Not only do they cover the cost of their commute, they contribute to other transit projects in the area. The same applies if they are traveling east to west across north Dallas and Collin counties. The same concept applies many areas of Houston and Austin, where toll roads have cropped up like weeds after a west Texas rainstorm. </p> <p>The toll roads in Texas have been or are being built so that low income motorists can avoid them. Very few people in Texas use public transportation.</p>
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