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Originally Posted by miketoronto
You have to beef up the transit service or people will not use it.
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Mike, this simply isn't a high priority in the U.S. If more people cared, the politicians would make it a higher priority. Excepting a few cities, everyone has cars.
You're approaching low transit usage as a problem to be solved. It isn't generally considered a problem in the U.S.; it's considered a consequence of affluence and the country's freedom of personal mobility.
And Philly has decent ridership. No more than four or five cities have better ridership.
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Originally Posted by miketoronto
The routes are not designed at all for suburbanites to use to get around to access rapid transit.
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When you're saying "rapid transit", I assume you mean Septa Regional Rail. I think you would be hard-pressed to find a suburban Septa station that didn't have an accompanying parking lot.
Why take the bus when you can drive to the station?