All over the United States, transit ridership is up for the first time since the seventies. The long, slow decline in public transit ridership parallels the long, slow decline of the great American cities. The recent rise in gas prices (oh, you hadn't heard?) has led people to search for other transportation options, only to find that they don't exist.
Long ignored transit systems are scrambling to add capacity to accomodate the new ridership, while sprawl apologists continue to tell us we can't afford it, that the people choose cars, that the gas tax is a highway user fee that shouldn't be used to fund public transportation.
Would you be willing to pay taxes that would drive gas to $7-8/gallon to fund public transportation?
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