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Re:California's DOT Admits That More Roads Mean More Traffic by sampo on Monday November 23, 2015 @11:19AM (#10615396)
> Every single major and minor city has a bus system. Most of them are nearly useless, often intentionally so by design.

European here. Why would someone intentionally design a useless bus system?

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Re:California's DOT Admits That More Roads Mean More Traffic by maxsilver on Monday November 23, 2015 @11:57AM (#10615595)
In a lot of US cities, (particularly the mid-size and smaller cities that don't have Trains/Subways/Light Rail) busing isn't treated as transportation, it's treated like a welfare program, similar to Food Stamps / EBT or Section 8 / subsidized housing.

http://www.vox.com/2015/8/10/9118199/public-transportation-s...

This is compounded by the fact that in most of these types of cities, most of the jobs and/or the "best" jobs (highest paying, most stable, best health insurance benefits, etc) are located in the suburbs, where transit is least available. Often these places can "opt-out" of transit altogether.

http://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/stephen-hender... (subheading: "Designed for failure")

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