Is life in the U.S.A really as catastrophic and terrible as the media makes it out to be?

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[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (14 children)

Sure buddy. Think about that for a second.

How exactly is that better than running the busses in the state they are in?

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

Not running busses costs the taxpayers less money.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

Why have any busses at all then?

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

A properly maintained and safe transit system offers a number of benefits. Namely it can reduce traffic to highly congested urban areas, as well as provide cheaper access to workers as well as customers into an urban center which can stimulate economic growth.

A poorly maintained and unsafe system offers little to no benefit to the society at large.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

A poorly maintained and unsafe system offers little to no benefit

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it can reduce traffic to highly congested urban areas, as well as provide cheaper access to workers as well as customers into an urban center which can stimulate economic growth

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Hardly, because nobody will use it if it isn't safe

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

False

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Unfalse.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

You already claim it is unsafe and people are using it. Ergo you are wrong.

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

More people would use it if it was safe. As it stands now I think the only people who use it are people who have no choice but to use it. In other words, bums, the handicapped (I'm fine with giving them free transport tbh) and tourists that don't know any better.