The San Diego plan ignores restraints on sprawl “in favor of providing an easy solution for developers that kicks the can down the road and saddles a future generation of Californians with the cost of climate change,” Becerra’s office wrote in the filing.
There are a number of reasons that transit SE likes to support and use transit:On the cost savings front we estimated that over the last 10 years we saw approximately $84,000 of savings for our family.
- Traffic congestion reduction (buses move far more people than the typically single occupant cars common in the US)
- Cost savings
- Reduced environmental impact
- Social unity / exposure
- Etc
- $200 per month parking x 10 years = $24,000 (Comparison from co-workers)
- $6000 per year vehicle cost x 10 = $60,000 (About 1/3 less than the average cost per year from AAA since Cali is hella expensive but we’re cheap. Results may vary.)
1970: One more lane will fix it.
— Urban Planning & Mobility (@urbanthoughts11) November 4, 2019
1980: One more lane will fix it.
1990: One more lane will fix it.
2000: One more lane will fix it.
2010: One more lane will fix it.
2020: ?pic.twitter.com/NjS1IPORG2
via @avelezig
What we really want now is for @metrolosangeles to do a better job of serving our young people too. Our students have had enough obstacles in their lives keeping them from graduating high school; we don't need public transit to be another one. 16/16 [End Thread]— YouthBuild Charter (@YBCharter) September 18, 2019
Compared to public transportation, a single car throws vastly more carbon into the atmosphere, fits fewer people, and isolates us from our communities. Like any other essential program, say healthcare or college, we need free public transportation. Until transit is free, every city without it will be plagued by the dominance of cars – and car companies – which destroy an environment already under siege.
As a young person, and a lifelong Los Angeles resident, it’s not just a choice between free and priced, it’s a choice between growing up in a city that is accessible to all and a city where one of our biggest infrastructure projects is more of a luxury than a basic entitlement. No matter how low the cost, someone always gets left on the margins, as with any means-tested policy or other anti-poverty measure that isn’t universal.
So let’s make public transit fare-free. It’s a public good, and all of us who constitute the public should be able to use it.https://la.streetsblog.org/2019/09/13/youth-perspectives-on-transportation-free-public-transit-for-a-more-just-equitable-and-sustainable-urban-l-a/
