What is the sorriest bus stop in America?
I can sit at my computer and look the Streetsblog.org online survey about this very topic (a posting which is very popular among transit advocates right now). http://usa.streetsblog.org/2015/02/06/its-time-to-vote-for-the-sorriest-bus- stop-in-america/ I can review the images in the submissions and chuckle at how bad they are. I can try to cast an "objective" vote. This is how many of us operate much of the time right now in America. Sitting in the bleachers, observing, passing judgment. But there is another way I can see the sorriest bus stop in America. I can look out the bay window of my house, at Main Street in my own community. The sorriest bus stop is one where no bus ever stops. It is the place where people who don't have the luxury of choosing among "transportation choices" cannot choose to live. And if I look more closely I can see, reflected in the window, the image of a man who promised over ten years ago that he would bring commuter bus service to the village of Oregon, Wisconsin. I could ask whether I am the sorriest excuse for a transit advocate in America, but in addition to being insincere it I would be a perverse kind of hubris. The worst bus stop in America shouldn't be about me. It shouldn't even be about ranking which is the worst. It should be about what I didn't get done. Yet. It should be about what we didn't get done. Yet. Hans Noeldner Viral Narratives Mfg. Co. Oregon, WI 608-444-6190
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