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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

My Good Babushka

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4. Employers want employees to have cars

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Wed Jan 27, 2016, 10:07 AM

Jan 2016

which are expensive to buy and maintain, but they don't want to pay enough for the employee to maintain that kind of lifestyle, especially when rent, health care, child care and student loans are competing for such a large portion of workers' wages these days. Something has got to give and young people are giving up cars. I think it's good and will spur greater investments in mass transit.

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Suburban office parks are dying because young people don't want to drive there [View all] marmar Jan 2016 OP

Perhaps re-purpose as a school. Can't imagine that would be too difficult..n/t monmouth4 Jan 2016 #1

Not getting a car is fine yeoman6987 Jan 2016 #2

And the same person TexasMommaWithAHat Jan 2016 #3

Employers want employees to have cars My Good Babushka Jan 2016 #4

Depends where the population base is MichMan Jan 2016 #5

Depends on what you define as "quality of life" marmar Jan 2016 #7

They could always deploy the Google bus model KamaAina Jan 2016 #6

Passenger Transportation has always lost money.... happyslug Jan 2016 #8

Um, yes, the office parks would have to subsidize the shuttles KamaAina Jan 2016 #9

Lets be honest, here, the people these people want do not want to live in the Suburbs happyslug Jan 2016 #10