Okay, look, we’re a looooong way from rural areas getting good public transit. We don’t even have good transit in and between large cities (not enormous metros like SF or LA, I’m talking about places like Fresno, with half a million people). It can be done, especially because many of the little tiny towns across the US sprang up as the result of (now defunct) rail stations. I think it’s a worthy goal to give all folks in small towns access to opportunities (jobs, commerce, entertainment) in the city, not just the ones who can drive. That said, the way the US does things, we’re practically 20 years out from that if we started today.
All that to say that public transit doesn’t really enter the conversation for me about rural areas except as something we ought to do, like we ought to build a lunar base or a Lagrange point station.
Okay, look, we’re a looooong way from rural areas getting good public transit. We don’t even have good transit in and between large cities (not enormous metros like SF or LA, I’m talking about places like Fresno, with half a million people). It can be done, especially because many of the little tiny towns across the US sprang up as the result of (now defunct) rail stations. I think it’s a worthy goal to give all folks in small towns access to opportunities (jobs, commerce, entertainment) in the city, not just the ones who can drive. That said, the way the US does things, we’re practically 20 years out from that if we started today.
All that to say that public transit doesn’t really enter the conversation for me about rural areas except as something we ought to do, like we ought to build a lunar base or a Lagrange point station.