(DOWNLOAD) "Rail Against the Machine: What's So Conservative About Federal Highways? (Transit) (Conservatives Use Public Transport)" by William S Lind # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Rail Against the Machine: What's So Conservative About Federal Highways? (Transit) (Conservatives Use Public Transport)
- Author : William S Lind
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 64 KB
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CONSERVATIVES DO NOT LIKE public transportation--or so libertarians and Republican officeholders tell us. If that means we must spend hours stuck in congested traffic, so be it. Under no circumstances would conservatives ever ride public transit. Except that we are riding it, in growing numbers. Studies of passengers on rail-transit systems across the country indicate many conservatives are on board. Chicago's excellent METRA commuter trains offer one example. A recent survey revealed that in the six-county area METRA serves, 11 percent of commuters with incomes of $75,000 or more commuted by train. In Lake County, the mean earnings of rail commuters were more than $76,000. (The figure for bus riders was less than $14,000.) Not surprisingly, the area METRA serves regularly sends Republicans to Congress.