The response I often get when I ask "Wouldn't it be quicker and cheaper to enhance the bus service vs. commuter rail?" is that people refuse to ride buses.
It is not cool to ride the bus. Kunstler's book Geography of Nowhere is often cited where he says that buses in America seem to have neon signs over the doors that say "losers enter here". Well, if we can save millions of dollars using buses over rail then lets spend the money on advertising to convince people how cool riding the bus is! I mean look at SUVs and pickup trucks, Detroit pounded us and continues to pound us with ads telling us how we NEED to drive these useless, polluting, overly expensive behemoths. And it has worked! Sales of trucks and SUVs outpace car sales now and have for the paste several years. Couldn't a similar campaign be waged to make bus riding the coolest thing since DVD players? Frankly I don't care if it is buses or rails, lets get some regional travel options going here! Ann M. Freiwald Schreiber Anderson Associates 1435 E Main St. Madison, WI 53703 Voice: 608.441.3580 Fax: 608.255.7750 _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
