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Study: “Millennials” want multi-modal transportation system
Hang on a minute. I am 33 years old. Since when did I go from being Generation X to a Millenial? As for my own example, I have a well paying job but choose to live somewhere where I can walk to work.
46% want mass transit in order to save money. Of course that response is to be expected. Why pay for it yourself when you can still live at home with mommy and daddy, with no job, and get the government to increase taxes on those who work for a living in order that you can get around on the cheap at their expense. I always thought the baby boomers were the laziest generation of all time. Guess what? Like Jimmy Carter compared to Obungler, the boomers are officially off the hook. The millenials have surpassed the boomers. Quite easily too. Where I work, it is very difficult to find anybody under the age of 40. If I do, odds are excellent the person in question was either in the military (Thank You!) or is from a foreign country trying to escape government imposed socialism (Good Luck!).
Jeffery Guse, it simply means millenials are smarter in their financial investments. It’s a ridiculous and stupid assumption (you know what happens when you assume) to think that people ‘stay at home with Mommy & Daddy’ just because they use public transit. It’s a good way to save money and invest on other things. I am sick of your stupid political crap that you always post on here. Really, it’s not always about a bunch of ‘naive socialists’ or whatever you like to call everyone.
As usual. the US is years behind the rest of the world in transportation needs!!!
You can thank the mentality of the Tea Party types, Richard.
Guse:
I must second Jim Dodd’s comment on your latest irrational diatribe. You surely must be missing some critical parts of your central nervous system. Please just get off this site. You add absolutely nothing to it. In fact you are so bad that you are upsetting. Your assumptions are beyond just bizarre, there are bordering on the insane.
When I see…“.Guse from ILLINOIS said”…I prepare for commentary that, were it performance humor, I’d figure something between Jerry Lewis’s babytalk and prat-falls, and the Three Stooges, compared to Groucho Marx and
George Carlin (no relation)…dang it.
But it is, judging it as written humor, as in a sadistic satirist’s script, entertaining.
Ian, Jim, Paul and Dr., considering our station in the humanitarian, somewhat progressive, political spectrum, saying to you “right on,” would be heretical were it to be juxtaposed with the Mid-American Fowl, so instead to you “LEFT ON!!!” but only just compared to the “Honker.”
Where a chasm exists to this desire for varied transportation options is at the border between suburban and urban areas is.
Two and a half miles from 1580 feet to 900 feet, i…then back uphill to get a quart of milk…unless a cow trespasses opportunely…I’m 33 years over over 40…and a Viet Nam Vet’…Do I qualify to criticize?..yes.
Apartments, loft’s and condominiums…right? Stack’em up close to commerce, retail and transport. Bikes, jogging, walking…hell, pogo sticks. Walt Kelly, help with the right line…“and he is us.” Yeah!
Even trolleys, light rail, MU’s, commuter rail, hybrid buses, straight buses, even jitneys, ferry boats, bush pilots to get to work…(that’s a bit much.)
Though…admire the bush pilots…if you haven’t been there with them, you’ve got to, to experience…what they do…
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Multimodal transportation is not just about saving money. If there was a train that cost the same as what I pay in gas that could take me to work in the morning, I’d jump on it. Less stress. More comfort. Ability to work while traveling. Better reliability.
Meanwhile the government continues to head in the opposite direction. Latest outrage? Apparently All Aboard Florida, the FEC company that’s trying to reintroduce private passenger rail to Florida has been told it has to compensate the Turnpike system for the loss in drivers they expect as a result of AAF coming into being.
And as they have the FEC over a barrel (don’t want to pay? No right-of-way for you!) the FEC’s had to agree to this.
Cue Guse and his ilk spluttering outrage at railroads being forced to subsidize unprofitable cars and trucks… crickets
@RON SALTERS - If I wrote “Rail sucks, Amtrak sucks, up with roads” and continuously attacked the government regardless of topic, or the opposite, I’d expect to be ridiculed here too.
As for freedom of speech: nobody’s suggested taking Guse’s ability to comment here away, but you’ve suggested enforcing the rules against anyone who dares criticize Guse. I think you need to brush up on what freedom of speech means - it certainly doesn’t mean you can say anything you like without others saying you’re wrong.
Many years ago Trains Magazine had a columnist named John Kneiling, an authority on freight traffic. He said many unpopular and outrageous things, and angered many readers, especially professional railroaders who did not want to read his comments. Kalmbach should hire Jeffrey Guse to write a monthly column in the magazine, plus on this site. He is an example of “Diversity of Opinion”, yet he is vilified, insulted, called names, told that he is insane, and asked to leave the site. All of this invective is a violation of Kalmbach’s rules for posting on this site. We have Free Speech in the USA and that includes this website. I have been reading his comments for months now, and I don’t have a problem with them, even if I disagree with him.
Mr. Sweeney:
Within the first few years of introduction, so-called “self-driving” automobiles may offer certain conveniences in niche markets; but, overall, I believe reality will have a very hard time living up to all the hype.
However…
Eventually, I see the technology proving itself to be truly revolutionary. In fact, given the technology’s ultimate success, automobiles (and the U.S.’ carefully constructed and sustained autocentric society) will change so dramatically as to be totally unrecognizable within two generations.
Only the wealthiest will own and operate private motor vehicles. Others will find self-driving cars simply one of several transport alternatives - and an expensive one, at that (when compared to the out-of-pocket cost of mass transit services).
Private firms attempting to make a profit by offering their self-driving cars for hire will need to keep them moving as much as possible - which may often necessitate planning and some sort of advance reservations for use (militating one of the presumed benefits of autos). This will add to roadway traffic levels, due to fewer vehicles being parked for hours at a time.
In an effort to restrict major arterial use to computerised cars, all automobiles on public roads will be required to carry active transponders of some sort. Can you imagine the general reaction to that?!
Do you think such a massive societal shift will be ignored by our blessed government?
In fact, those who try to delay the inevitable, maintaining and operating their own cars, will find this brave new world increasingly bereft of gasoline stations, auto parts stores, parking lots and many of the other autocentric accouterments now taken for granted.
Perhaps one in ten automobile dealerships will survive - if that many.
Single family homes will no longer be built with a garage (but will have a prominent porte-cochere).
The newest cars will probably h
I suspect that the advent of self-driving cars and the resulting massive improvement in the convenience of automobiles in both commuting and urban settings will dramatically change the balance of “shared” transit from fixed points and “personal” point to point transit.
Just as the original automobile revolution killed the trolleys the first time.
This country is behind in our mass transit options. Put people on a plane or drive…that’s the mindset. I’m a baby boomer and do not look at our generation as lazy. I’m also a bit right of center but have to agree the Republicans need to change their thinking from concrete to rail.
I don’t have a problem with this, and enjoyed using public transportation when it was avaialble. For me to use multimodal transportation to get to work requires 3 modes, 5 changes and 2 1/2 hours each way. The flaw in this study seems to be that the “kids” interviewed were in cities. It is totally impractical for those who don’t live in the city today, and extremely cost prohibitive to build out, especially if we continue to spend money we don’t have as a country, and it is unlikely everyone will move to urban areas (we do need food, after all!).