mass transit (sic)

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Thu Jun 6 07:55:59 PDT 2002


Yes, if my minority transit, you mean that minority people are often dependent on mass transit. The part of mass transit that it best funded is modern rapid transit systems designed to serve better off commuters -- such as the Bay Area Rapit Transit.

On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 07:48:51PM +0100, James Heartfield wrote:
>
> Michael Perelman <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu>
>
> "If you starve public enterprises, whether mass transit or public
> education, fewer people will be attracted to it except by necessity."
>
> You don't think perhaps that the reason mass transit (sic) is not
> garnering funds is because it just isn't mass, its minority transit?
>
> I suppose by the same lights you could say that gas-lighting was
> 'starved of funds' or that valves were starved of funds by transistors.
> --
> James Heartfield
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