At 01:27 PM 10/4/01 -0400, you wrote: >When I taught at Howard U. here in DC I use to take the interminable route >70 bus up Georgia Ave (before the last Metro line was finally built there). >That was a good lesson in social reality. The route was (deliberately?) >under-served...
This under-service reflects the weak political power of the poor & minority communities (a result of racism, capitalism, etc.) The transportation system management responds only to those with clout. This can be counteracted, as with the Bus Rider's Union in L.A., which is using the courts to force the public bus system to improve. >The class stratification between car / subway / bus >has always been striking. Of course the buse services, even where they are >relatively good, are also less convenient and generally more brutish then >the other modes. This creates a self-perpetuating system of transportation >class segregation in the U.S. I think this has a lot more to do with the >alleged aversion of Americans to mass transit than the "love of the >automobile". absolutely! Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
