Mass Transit, It’s a Communal Thing
Mass transit is one of the foundational pieces of providing reasonable access to opportunities and resources to a vast segment of the country, those for whom a personal car is not simply a given. Needless to say, the ubiquitous push in much of the country to gut public resources through tax cuts is cutting service or eliminating mass transit altogether.
In Atlanta, MARTA is cutting service, and in Clayton County, the county’s mass transit service will be eliminated entirely. In addition to all the economic reasons this is decidedly short-sighted–more people out of a job because they can’t get to work. reduced commerce as people will have a harder time getting to stores–E.D. Kain offers this great perspective on why we should all support mass transit with our tax dollars:
But as a matter of societal and social stability, we must return to a more communal sense of who we are as Americans, as families, as workers and students and citizens.
I couldn’t have said it better. It is too easy when one has access to resources like a car, to take it for granted and forget about all those around us who do not. We are losing our sense of what it truly means to be a society and to care for others as ourselves.
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