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Public transit is difficult to use for eg tradespeople who bring a lot of tools on to the job and work at differing locations. Some such workers are not wealthy
by trollbridge 2y ago
Public transit is difficult to use for eg tradespeople who bring a lot of tools on to the job and work at differing locations. Some such workers are not wealthy at all and are also carpooling to make it affordable to get into the city.
(Yes, I know you could haul all your stuff on public transit; I’m simply observing that many workers choose not to and they probably have a good reason. Those of us whose tools are limited to a MacBook Air in a designer bag should hesitate to dictate how other people live.)
- estebank 2y agoI explicitly call out how the reduced traffic benefits tradespeople driving their van: every minute they are not stuck in gridlock is a minute they can either bill for or a minute they can get home earlier. We're talking about the price of a sandwich here, at most.
- trollbridge 2y agoTradespeople don’t get to bill more just because their commute got shorter, and the people I’m talking about are common labourers who commute in a car to the job site and work for a foreman. I am simply pointing out that _many_ common labourers do indeed drive into the city.