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>> This is a city that practically endorses party behavior, and has absolutely miserable public transportation options and a sprawling suburb area I used to li
by robbyking 13y ago
>> This is a city that practically endorses party behavior, and has absolutely miserable public transportation options and a sprawling suburb area
I used to live in Athens, GA, and we had the same problem: nightlife drove much of the local economy, but public transportation was nearly non-existent. The number of clearly intoxicated people getting into cars was astounding to me when I first moved, having previously lived in a city with good public transportation.
The correlation between drunk driving and the availability of public transportation seems pretty clear to me.
- MicroBerto 13y agoUnfortunately, one can't build a rail line overnight. Especially when Austinites themselves voted down the larger-scale project that was on the ballot in 2000. Shot ourselves in both feet. With this city's growth, it will be very very bad for at least 20 years to come. The Mayor himself basically said so on an AMA yesterday.
- lotsofmangos 13y agoYou can buy and run subsidised night buses pretty quickly. The hard bit is the politics, not the logistics.