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- Most cities have public transit systems that serve an outdated commute, and it’s impossible to get around except for in a car. And our political discourse often tends to favor building new roads and highways, rather than improving and expanding public transportation. And nearly 80 percent of Americans get to work by driving alone.
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Jul 6, 2015 · Inadequate public transit has become as Canadian as maple syrup, and cities are struggling to find affordable solutions. Metro Vancouver took a novel crack at the problem last week with a ...
Aug 10, 2015 · Although history and geography are partly to blame, there’s a deeper reason why American public transportation is so terrible. European, Asian, and Canadian cities treat it as a vital...
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May 31, 2022 · Public transit use is slowly on the rise across the country, but ridership continues to remain lower than pre-pandemic levels. For several years, Luis Virla would hop on a bus and then transfer...
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Transportation affects health because of its connections to service access and climate change. Globally, 1.5 million people die from road transport — more than from HIV, malaria or tuberculosis. Canada had the fourth highest rate of traffic fatalities in 2009 among OECD countries. The most recent datashows that road traffic fatality in Canada conti...
Apart from the reasons above, a national public transportation system is necessary because its absence normalizes the oppression of already disadvantaged groups. In Western Canada, the tragedy of the highway of tearsoffers a cautionary tale. Between 1969 and 2011 an estimated 40 women, mostly Indigenous, disappeared or were murdered on Highway 16 i...
Although national public transportation is being taken seriously in some parts of the world, public transportation is often targeted by austerity-driven government cutbacks. In Canada, deregulation made intercity transportation a provincial jurisdiction in 1987, which led to public transportation cuts. Current concerns for climate justice, reductio...
May 8, 2023 · In short, the benefits of accessible, affordable public transit in rural communities are economic, social and environmental. Despite these benefits, rural communities across Canada...
Mar 25, 2021 · The worry about the future is twofold. If commuters shun public transit for cars as their cities recover from the pandemic, that has huge implications for air pollution and greenhouse...
Feb 21, 2023 · Public transportation gets people where they’re going while emitting far fewer climate-warming greenhouse gases than private cars. The reason is simple efficiency: while cars usually carry just one or two people at a time, a bus can carry 50 or more, and a train in a large city may carry thousands. 1
