We have too many cars 

The fact that Puerto Rico is super car-dependent completely debunks the notion that national population density has anything to do with car-centrism. Car centrism is ALWAYS a deliberate policy choice. The US is not "too big" for public transportation, we just have bad land use policy.

“A question whether the car really represents freedom if we’re forced to use it.” Exactly!

No one ever gets stuck in traffic. They are the traffic.

Hallo, I’m from The Netherlands and enjoyed your video. I’m 70 years now, and joined the actions against cars in the city center when I was 17. And look where The Netherlands are now! And I know you are going to change things faster, because you’re better in knowing what to do. Our actions were a kind of stupid and naïve but in the end they worked nevertheless. I never had a car, because I don’t like being in a car. I love to take public transport, and became very good in planning my journeys using it. And I agree for 100% with Ivonne Belén that you walk a lot by taking the bus. And that’s also great for your mental health. For me the walk from work to the busstation was also switching in my head to free time. You can’t do that in a car, because you have to pay attention. The walk from the busstop to home was like meditating.

Every time I go back to PR to visit my parents, I am amazed at how many cars are parked around the neighborhood. It's somewhat difficult to find a parking spot even in a residential area. 💀

It's telling that the PR Governor says everyone needs luxury cars to communicate the country's prosperity, as if there is nothing that exists between worn out "sh*tboxes" and luxury vehicles everyone is upside down and paying a thousand or more a month to take care of.

As a Mexican I noticed this when I went to PR. The part I am from in Mexico has plenty of issues but there are so many bus options that you can live without a car

I would be happy with just the inclusion of busses around the island. The problem is that for the political class, PR is only the metro area and the rest of the island apparently doesn’t exist.

In Madrid, the Metro system is so advanced, it is mind boggling. If you miss your train, you don't fret because there will be another coming within 3-5 minutes. People walk to take the Metro and are healthier. In fact, the only fat people I saw while visiting Madrid recently were American tourists. The US can only dream of such a system because the fossil fuel and car industries have policy makers in their pockets. Capitalism is one of the most corrupt forms of government in the world. Edit: Yes, I know capitalism isn't a form of government, it's an economic system, however, corporations and the rich have politicians in their pockets and thus complete control of the system via lobbyists. There is no true Democracy under this repressive regime where the rich get richer, the poor get homeless, and the middle class (the only people that pay taxes because the rich have their loopholes and the poor can't) is being pushed to the brink.

Una colaboración de Bianca y Notjustbikes estaría cabrona.

This is a subject that I’m obsessed with. I’m so glad you covered it! It’s ridiculous that a small island like our Puerto Rico is so car-dependent. Other big Latin American cities are way ahead of us in this. I’m convinced if more Puerto Ricans travel around Europe and Latin America instead of the awful disconnected suburban nightmare of Florida and the US, they would realize how bad we have it. Our cities and towns were built originally as dense, walkable communities. It’s sad that we abandoned our own heritage and adopted the American suburban sprawl that is so linked to bad health and depression.

I’m surprised PR has so many cars! Surprised they didn’t build a train system for such a densely populated area.

Wow, I did not know that the American car-centric development virus was in Puerto Rico. Very educational, but very sad to see a place with such natural beauty ruined like this.

Excellent video. I live in Birmingham, UK, a very different city from San Juan in many ways. But what's striking is how parallel the problem of car-centric planning is, and how much it entrenches inequality into the built and natural environment. Around the world, reclaiming public space from private cars is one of the greatest challenges of this century, as this video so effectively demonstrates. Thanks for posting!

This is what the government of Puerto Rico should be concentrating on. All proceeds from the public transportation can go to fixing and improving the state of PR. Interest on these new cars are horrible. We are constantly bombarded with new cars like if there was a shorted of cars! Social media and TV commercials of selling cars is terrible as these commercials make it look so stylish and look like the "IN THING" to drive in a new car. Bring the railroads and busses back to Puerto Rico and make new jobs!!!!!

another thing i don't hear brought up enough is employeers in my experience employers like to have a monopoly on their employees time, they don't like being told "no i can't make it today" even with completely valid reasons like appointments with a doctor or DMV. If they say "be here in five minutes" and you say "the bus dosen't show up for at least an hour" they would likely just fire you and replace you with a car driver who can come running whenever they snap their fingers

"Esta isla tiene demasiados carros y con gente que no sabe conducir" proverbio de Dios

gotta say I love your videos it shows the real Puerto Rico I've been saying for years Puerto Rico could be a Paradise if not for the Corruption of the main Politicians who are not here to help the Citizens but to create chaos so that the Citizens think we need them keep up the good work 😎

Excellent report. As a Bronx-born and raised "New Yorican", I've only been to my family's homeland once, but it was in 2005 on a 7-day Caribbean cruise out of Miami and I'm hesitant to travel to Puerto Rico especially after my mom passed away in 2019 (just before the Pandemic began). Just as important as building low and middle income housing for puertorriqueños en la isla, and make the island's bus system more user-friendly so that more people can use it, expanding el Tren Urbano (the Urban Train) to Carolina [there were plans to also expand the Tren Urbano to Old San Juan y el aeropuerto] is the most significant step in building confidence island-wide.

Same thing has happened in my home country El Salvador. People drive for two hours just to move 20 km, it's crazy!!!! Thank you for bringing light to this problem in Latin America

I hate driving now. I used to love driving, speeding, long road trips even working on cars. Now I hate it, after 20-30min driving puts me to sleep after that fighting traffic and staying awake just multiply the misery of driving

This is becoming more and more relevant in El Salvador as well. With the terrain it’s had to see a vast rail network though.

I feel like we really went backwards when we built sprawled out suburbs and dependency to cars. Sure it’s nice in the beginning because everything is new, but over time the upkeep is costly and the infrastructure becomes ugly and outdated, and the roads become cracked.

Videos like these should be made worldwide. Thank you!

I relate to Señora Ivonne’s love of public transportation. I love riding public transit, even though the vast majority of people here would never consider anything but driving. There are a few things turning around here - we actually have a decent commuter rail here, in spite of the massive suburban sprawl. I hope that Puerto Rico is able to slowly turn around the damage that’s been done by developers and car manufacturers.

Gracias por tu trabajo de investigación y documentación de lo que ocurre en nuestro país, ¡mucho éxito mija!

I'm so glad that more and more people are realizing the magnitude of this issue. I feel like we're finally waking up.

As a Puerto Rican living in PA. The amount of traffic and micro aggressive drivers gets to my head I sold our car and are now taking the bus. It is more relaxing but the meetings for public transit are always having a summary of yeah we need better roads and economy. This is not the case the true issue is Having more highways and roads will only lead to more congestion. I have taken The trains and public buses and even though it's filthier apparently I get such relief I can do everything by bus and Uber and Save around 600 a month YES!! 600$ Only spend 50 a month on Uber just because of little getaways as we call it.And 40 a month for bus pass. it is so great not having to drive and just take trains and buses trust me. Back to the issue the USA does seem to take notice but some states like the Fake economic boosts that car dealers provide. But remember folks you never truly own your car unless you pay it off. Basically it's fake money being lended. I hope in the next 5 years we see a really great improvement but only some states have taking this matter more seriously.

This is something I tell my friends and family so much about. We're forced to depend on cars because no policies have been made to make public transportation more accesible. Even just adding a bus only lane on many major streets will drastically reduce wait time for people using public transport. Not to mention that some of the major highway lanes could be turned into railways to bring back the train that was so prevalent in the 1950s. It's such a saddening view to see my beloved homeland reduced to an even more impoverished state just because the people at the top benefit from all the bribes that the fossil fuel industry offers them.

This is what I call a perfect video. Starting with the thumbnail, the text, music, all of it. It's not overdone and amped up. It's just right.

Really want to see society back on trains, streetcars, biking, and walking to commute.

The production quality on this video is out of this world. Love all the interviews, too. Just great storytelling.

The biggest rip off of the last 100 years, the car cult.

GRACIAS POR SER LA VOZ DEL PUEBLO !!!! 🇵🇷

I love seeing the growing number of channels talking about the miserable reality of car centric design.

Another thing I have always agreed upon. Bringing back public transportation enmass. Driving unfortunately is what people today equate with freedom. That is not in fact actually the case. Urban sprawl and decaying cities are no solution to modern day survival problems. Going off grid or in prepped communities is also running away from the problem. In fact we have a collective mental health problem directly associated with the difficulties surrounding survival and purposeful living. "Without vision, a people perish!" - Julius Ceasar.

A train around Puerto Rico??? Bestill my PR loving autistic heart!

Consider building subways, elevated rail, and loop lines, a la Tokyo's Yamanote Line.

¡Que vídeo tan EXCELENTE! Bianca tú y tu equipo de trabajo hacen una labor GENIAL con los temas que traen y como los abordan. Le dan un ambiente moderno y fresco a los temas de Puerto Rico. Gracias por tu trabajo.

Not just the cost savings, but when using public transit you also walk more instead of sitting down. In the US we've become a nation that sits down at work for 8 hours, sits down in their car fto commute for 1 or 2 hours, and then sits on the couch at home. 65 year old retirees are obese and unable to move healthy because our sedentary lifestyle has destroyed our bones, muscles, health etc. Meanwhile in places with well developed urban infrastructure and public transit people are walking and walking and walking and reach age 75+ and STILL can walk around the city as able-bodied individuals. Just looking at my grandpa that immigrated to the USA to work as a child, and my grandmother in Spain the difference is astounding. My grandpa can barely walk meanwhile my grandma dances, works on her gardens all day, goes for jogs, hikes. It's horrible what car-dependent suburban living has done to create a lazy group of sedentary people. Wall-e was a warning, not something we should become.

Thank you for doing this and educating us about Puerto Rico’s transportation system.

What a great story. I especially love a story with a tangible next step for the individual watching. Looking forward to using the transportation guide! Thank you!!

It’s also a safety issue cause pedestrians in Puerto Rico often get killed trying to get to work

Visited San Juan earlier this month and was surprised to learn there was a subway. We stayed in Condado so it was not convenient but I was able to do a bike tour and there were some nice bike lanes in that area. Hope infrastructure on the island continues to get better for residents and visitors

I the early part of the 20th century many people had a habit of going to work on a train, trolley car, bus or other form of mass transit, even though they could afford a car. they didn't own a car. Trolley cars, buses and trains were purchased by companies that were bought by the industry that sells cars and things that cars use. They were managed in such a way that the managers ran them into the ground. When people did not have good mass-transit available to them, they felt they needed to buy a car.

THANK you for making this video! My family lives right by one of the metro stations on the island and I'm here right now visiting. I live in and attend school in NYC atm, and am always appalled by how the metro system here on the island is so OBVIOUSLY held back by corrupt bureocracy.. The potential of human capital here is uncanny. P.R. people are the loveliest human beings to have ever existed. This island is an absolute diamond in the rough, and SHOULD be the most advanced city in the world. The negligence by the U.S. is wild, and the atrocities committed here are some of the worst in history around the world. Thank you!🙏

Great video highlighting all of the issues and the advocates, also fantastic production quality! One other thing to note is that San Juan's Metro system was supposed to be larger than it is now, hopefully along with building more density around the stations the rest of the system can get built out to what was originally planned (or close to it).

Even Car Rental is difficult in PR for those who want to be back to visit the island. I don't know why municipal towns removed more and more School Buses and Public Transportations by the turn of the 21st centuries

Thank you for sharing such a well investigated and developed story. I wish more people from our island would watch this to be informed about how crucial a strong public transportation infrastructure is.

I feel like Puerto Rico is one you don't hear very much about when it comes to this history. This was some great info

PR should show the world how it’s done; the island has, geographically, everything you need for an amazing transit network. I hope it happens

Love to see the anti car-dependency movement spreading around the world. And this is coming from a guy living in London, Canada! 😅

Buen reportaje.

This is beautiful! En PR me movía en bicicleta, no tenía auto, vivía en Río Piedras y trabajaba en Bayamón, por 10 años estuve haciéndolo. y aún sigo,

I grew on the west coast, about 30 miles south of seattle. In my younger days we walked everywhere. After some time I moved back to the south but eventually made my way back to the west coast. The transit system was very good. The buses would connect so you could travel between cities and it didn't take much time. Unfortunately, that started changing and it made people have to buy their own vehicle. Lucky for me, I lived around the corner from work, so I walked. Being able to walk to work was my exercise, it took me 12-15 minutes to get there. Once again, I am in the south and the bus system here isn't as good, so people here have their own vehicle and I am not able to walk like I used to.

In many parts of the US the train station is in the worst part of town and they aren't safe. The BART is a good example. People get assaulted and robbed. Even with cameras, no one seems to know who is doing it. One of life's mysteries.

Muchísimas gracias por arrojar luz sobre esta cuestión. Se trata de un problema importante también en Estados Unidos, por lo que cambiar la situación de Puerto Rico requerirá un movimiento social de abajo arriba.

The lack of public transit in PR is probably the #1 reason I may never visit this beautiful island. Thank God we still have extensive public transportation throughout most of our great Mexican nation.

I remember the first time I saw early construction of the train station, and once opened I could go back and forth from home to High School and beyond especially if you have a bicycle. It’s superb and you get there faster than anything. Love the train.

This is such a well made video. I can’t believe it doesn’t have millions of views. You deserve millions of subscribers

Vivo en Toronto desde hace año y medio y la verdad me ha aliviado tanto no tener que manejar mi carro por la caótica ciudad (porque lo es) sin embargo el transporte público a pesar de ser tan criticado, me salva la mayor parte del tiempo. Yo vengo de Guatemala y el tráfico en la capital es mucho peor que el que ven en este video pero el sentimiento es prácticamente el mismo: Una desesperación de ver perdidas nuestras horas día a día en un tráfico sin fin por culpa de un deficiente transporte público o inexistente.

It hit me the other day that I literally make just enough money to pay for my bills and my car. Every dollar I make goes to that. So I’m basically making just enough money to pay for a car only so I can use it to get myself back to work again 😂 It’s absolutely horrible. I’m considering just selling my car and using that money to move to a city where I won’t need one.

The first thing I noticed when I was in Puerto rico was how many condo towers and denser forms of living yet it was still car dependent. San Juan would be absolutely perfect for proper and low cost bus rapid transit.

Thank you for your hard work making this guide for all to use. Not much is free these days but every little bit helps with kind people like you 😊

I am Belgian and we have a dense train network which allows us to go almost anywhere by train. Of course it is less flexible than a car and in general in takes a bit longer. Besides the trains, buses and trams, we also love to ride our bicycles, especially in Flanders (northern part of Belgium). As in the Netherlands we have a lot of bicycle infrastructure (not as good as in the Netherlands though) which makes it very practical and healthy to use the bike. On top of that it's cheap too ! It looks like Puerto Rico is having a bit the same disease as the USA : the addiction of the car. But if you raise the number of buses, and change one car lane into a bicycle cane (OMG I am swearing now 😉) you can already change a lot !

I'm so glad to see a video on car dependency focusing on Puerto Rico! We've built ourselves into a corner with our cities and roads trying to imitate the suburban style of the US. And the result is doubly worse; our roads are constantly poorly maintained and deteriorated, just about every major road is frequently congested and even in the urban core it's hard to move around anything other than a car. Personally I enjoy taking public transit, and it's a shame that what we have of it is so poorly taken care of. The buses, save for a few routes are incredibly unreliable and are mostly useful if you're taking your time and don't mind waiting up to 90 minutes per bus, as the drivers take their sweet time between rides, get stuck in traffic and there's no way to track them (The government couldn't afford the GPS system they used to have so it's been removed). The train works fairly well, but as said in the video it doesn't serve anyone who really needs it and the areas surrounding them are almost all abandoned. Even the stations themselves are falling apart. My dad has to go through a nearly 3 hour commute just to get to the train station, so that he can get to work. That says just how messed up our public transit and car dependency is. I've been staying in Illinois and while the suburban bus system (Pace) has its issues, it's way more reliable and takes you to lots of places. And don't even get me started on how amazing CTA is within the Chicago area, when I go visit it. Buses at every corner that arrive exactly as told and can be tracked, and the L is really fun to take, not to mention how much distance it covers. I know CTA, Pace and Metra aren't perfect, but coming from PR where you have the bare minimum of public transit they are a godsend. I sadly don't see PR changing their situation anytime soon. Like all our issues, only a small few care and the vast majority either sees nothing wrong, doesn't care, or ends up leaving for a better quality of life. That said, the ATI, who manages the Tren Urbano is starting to do evaluations with public opinion for the extensions to the train that were promised years ago, so I encourage anyone in PR who reads this to look it up at DTOPs site and leave a message! I'm skeptical that anything will come of it, but it's worth a shot. Recently a bus route opened to Caguas, so maybe our public transit has a future? Also, hints for anyone that may need to move around bus in PR: Certain routes are privately owned and are some of the more reliable routes, and they can even be tracked through an app called First Transit Puerto Rico! It's not much, but it's something if you happen to live near or need these routes sometime. There is also an app/website called TrenUrbanoApp that shows live train arrival times, as well as a map of every bus route. Google Maps also seems to have been updated recently with all transit routes in PR and a timetable that unfortunately can't be relied on, but it's an okay estimate for when a bus may arrive. Time to end this long comment haha. Absolutely wonderful video, and thank you especially for the subtitles! I can finally show something about car dependency to my parents lol

I had a roommate who used a little moped to get around. It was also for work, as he had a rear cargo box mounted on the back for Postmates and DoorDash orders. Problem is that the streets were more favored for cars and the motorists were really abusive towards him, they would try to brake check or swerve into him, other times honking at him or throwing coins at him to try and make him crash. But he was able to endure and could park in more places than a car and used less gas to get around for his deliveries.

Another interesting things about a society that is built around the car, is that it creates isolation with it's residents. Because business and essential services were located at the town where the same people can maintain them, but with cars we are forced to used them in order to get to them, because the logic behind it is that everyone can get to it. We should be really critical in the way we think about Technology because it affects the way we interact with one another.

Bianca, excelente reportaje. Puerto Rico necesita más de esto de ver los problemas y sembrar esa semilla para pensar y crear cambios. Un abrazo fuerte. ❤

YES!!! And that’s not even mentioning the terrible quality of the roads which damages the cars and we constantly have to pay for repairs, as well as the driving culture where a lot of people drive recklessly, causing tons of accidents that (besides the dangers) make even MORE traffic

There shouldn’t be so many highways and cars on such a small and beautiful island. I hate car colonization so badly

My brother and mother and I live in PR, we have discussed this several times, the best fix we have come up with is to have a rail line installed over the existing highway system, a raised platform could easily be built over the existing roads so no need to buy up land, and we could have an island wide rail system with stops in every town.

I personally think a car is absolutely part of living a free life. I go where I want, and stop where I want. During the covid closures, this proved even more so as people headed "out". Out to places they never drove to, stopped in corners to see the sunset, to have picnics and to climb mountains, where a bus could never take them. But I do understand now that there should be a balance in very dense urban areas. The traffic in those areas are unbearable. Find the balance without getting rid cars which ultimately allow us an opportunity to explore locations we never would have had an ability for.

Another thing about Puerto Rico: it's infested with American pickup 🛻 culture as well. Last time I went I counted and 1 in 5 cars on the highway were pick up trucks. I've been in Spain for a couple of years now and I haven't seen a single pick up truck. People who need the extra space for work use vans instead. I don't know if Pick up trucs pay more in tolls or taxes in Puerto Rico, but they should, as the weight of the vehicle greatly impacts the amount of wear and tear of the roads.

I remember using the "guagua" when going to Uni. Waking up super early, getting home super late. While riding people with bad smell sleeping all over you, fights breaking out from nowhere, the heat, people asking for money and the "chofer" missing your stop. I will never ever go back to that.

Thanks Bianca for making these videos.

Estudié la universidad en Mayagüez y no entendía porqué me gustaba tanto ese lugar hasta que eventualmente me mudé a Barcelona: se puede vivir sin carro y en el pueblo tienes todo lo que necesitas a una distancia corta. Supermercado, bares, restaurantes, médicos, farmacias, ferreterías y todo en el mismo entorno en que uno vive. Creo que en muy pocos lugares en PR se puede vivir así. En Mayagüez por que es el casco histórico es además un "college town". Y es una pena que los cascos históricos de los otros pueblos estén abandonados.

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It's a problem that is aggravated by multiple factors. I live in Mexico City, one of the most densely populated cities in the world, here people tend to associate owning a car with luxury when the reality is that it's just another way of traveling. We also have the problem of poor government expenditure to maintain and improve public transportation and we also have the problem of high crime rates, many people get robbed while using the bus or the subway to travel which adds a reason to try and get a car, if income allows it, people will just buy a car, many of those who travel by public means do so because they can't afford anything else. It's just not an economic and demographic issue but a cultural issue, we need a holistic evolution in security, government investment in infrastructure, demographic distribution, economics, mentality and education.

Great to see a new perspective in the urbanist discourse on RU-vid! While Puerto Rico's geographical situation is unique, so much of the problem stems from same car centric planning that dominates in the American sphere of influence.

Great report and such an important topic.

I moved back to nyc from Atlanta because I couldn't stand driving everywhere all the time

Nice video. I was riding a city bike the other day through the city I'm in and I got upset at all the cars on the road. Seeing how bad it is in Puerto Rico truly makes me appreciate what I do have here 😊

Because it makes the car companies more money

Estender desde la estacion de bayamon, a levitown y le das acceso rapido al tren a una zona de alta densidad, volviendolos los principales usuarios y fuente de ingreso constante. Luego expandir de sagrada al aeropuerto, tal que puedas para irte de viaje parar en cualquier estacion en vez de pagar parking del aeropuerto. Y luego otra ruta a la isleta de SJ tal que tienes la rama de turismo.

I used to walk and ride the bus. I was much happier back then. Our transportation sucks out here though

I love cars but car dependency is cancerous. They are expensive and make cities ugly and desolate. We should have the right to options, during my time in Europe I was able to get groceries, eat out and talk to people within seconds of leaving the front door, it was nice. I also biked to work for a year and it was really fun, my mental health was amazing and I was very fit.

Hi Bianca! Big Fan here of your content. I liked the video but I think there was one element missing from your investigation. It’s important to highlight that highway and road construction was funded via the US Federal Government. And given the colonial relationship with the US, and lack of counter imagination from previous political leaders, we got what we got. A carbon copy of US planning in a tropical setting. It’s important to note that the colonial relationship does not always lead to this. See Singapur, Hong Kong, etc. the dependence on the car in PR is yet another element people that argue for sovereignty should deeply think restructuring. It seems like a daunting task but in the aftermath of disasters like Hurricane Maria, the question becomes one of what do you construct new vs what do you preserve. Anyway. It would be nice to see similar videos that explore colonialism and transportation…

Sedentarism is optional. I drive everyday and after work I go for a walk to exersice. Educate the people in being healthier and lets cut off on the fast food epidemic that is the real culprit of the overweight issues of today. But thats another topic.

Production quality of this video is impressive. This girl's going places.

Great video. Car companies and politicians trying to line their pockets have ruined so many cities. btw the way you say puerto rico is amazing

Because there are bigger profits in selling cars than selling transit. Its always money 💰💰💰

Yo quiero muchas cosas para el futuro de PR. Una de ellas es un futuro con transportacion acesible que ponga como prioridad a la comunidad

I have been living without a car for over a year now and I must say... I hate it with a passion. It takes 2x to 3x as long to get anywhere, trips that would be simple like going to the grocery store are nearly impossible, my work commute sucks and I often have to share public transportation with disgusting or just insane individuals. This is in one of the best public transportation cities in the US. All I can think about is how long before I can afford to buy a car again

Fun fact, puerto rico once had the finest rail network with all the private operators that once had everything you could imagine and connections that made peak Philly rail transit look like it was bare bones.

I disagree. Driving is one of the last great pleasures we have left these days. I use to live in Seattle, where there is always crazy traffic, and they also have a good public transit system, but I never used it because I love driving and would much rather sit in traffic in my own vehicle than ride public transport.

El carro ha sido promovido porque se promueve el endeudamiento. Es el segundo préstamo más grande que hace la clase obrera y pobre después de la hipoteca.

Excellent video, Bianca. Excellent work. For the short term, I totally agree with the idea of pushing for more buses, routes, and frequency. For the long term, Tren urbano must expand. It is running poorly because Phase 1 was not even completed. It was not meant to be one route. Sadly, even the original route was not able to reach the final stop. It was originally designed to reach the Old San Juan. Such a loss for passengers not being able to continue the ride under Santurce. I regret so much this project did not move forward, for passengers now to be able to travel further to the Centro de Convenciones, Miramar, El Capitolio, and reach El Viejo San Juan. Why did we stopped there!? Please, we need to continue the same system, the same train, the same expansion to Caguas, Condado, Carolina. Powerful interests and Ideology are over common sense. To my understanding, Tren Urbano was originally designed over 50+ years ago. Public Transportation planning, design, and implementation should be one voice for the common good. It is a right for the whole society, no matter the race, social class or political party. Big Corp + Misinformation + Ideology is our problem, obstructing our quality of life, lacking public transportation is affecting everyone, polluting our environment, and only favoring the rich and the powerful interests of the car and related industries.

I live in Minnesota but I've lived all over the country and we are so dependant on vehicles. I wanted to get some additional cardiovascular training a few years ago and purchased a bicycle for running local errands. Everyone who knew me asked if my car was broken and when I stated I just wanted to get exercise and reduce my carbon footprint. I also had people tell me I should put an engine on it (one time I put a small lulde jet engjne on a go-kart that's where that kelt coming from) and I said that defeats the purpose. Sometimes I'll walk instead because it helps me clear my mind and a week ago a driver nearly ran me over in the crosswalk but there was a man in a wheelchair behind me. As I cleared the right side of he began to back up almost hitting that old man. The whole time this is happening the old man and myself are receiving scowls like we are at fault. Absolutely insane people's mentality here.

The answer and reason are the very effective lobbying pressure and campaign by the auto & oil industries. Plus, in the USA there is a perception that mass transit is a socialist solution vs a capitalist solution. The obvious and less destructive to the economy, is the merge the best from the capitalist transportation ideology with the best with from the socialist mass transit ideology.