All over the United States, it's the same story. There's AMPLE demand for mass transit, there's nowhere near the infrastructure to support the number of people who WOULD use mass transit if they COULD.




I don’t know that I agree with that. It may work for a big city like New York. But here in Toledo Ohio it will not.

The way people go to work here is much different then NY or LA. Here business are spread all over the place, downtown Toledo is not the center of business like it is in NY. Much of it is in the blurbs in buildings that are under 2-stories tall. With a high-rise building you can have thousands of people in a small area. But with a bunch of 2-story buildings spread all over the area in many cities it becomes impossible to bus people to them very well.

Toledo has buses, but they are on limited loops and used mostly by lower income people that don’t or can’t drive. And many of the surrounding cities are voting to opt-out of the TARTA system (Toledo area bus system.) 2 of them in the last week voted to opt-out.

My guess is that most of the USA is like this and just not well served by a public bus system like it is in a larger city like NY.



I haven’t been on a bus since high school other then one vacation trip, it’s the same way with almost everyone I know.


Every business that is not actually in downtown Toledo (more here are not downtown then is, many many more) has a parking lot that you can pull into and find a parking spot any time of the day, and it’s free to park in. And the walk from your car to the front door of all the businesses is no more then 30-seconds. Everyone here drives their own car to work or appointments because it’s easy to do. Why wait for a bus when you can drive right up to the door of the place you are going to? Even when going to downtown Toledo you can find street parking all day long. And the parking meters are free from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm.


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