Mass Transit and LRT: Mass Transit: London is a large and growing city, and must begin to address mass transit along those lines. Many members of our community work odd hours, late at night, early mornings, yet our bus system does not address the diversity of our community. Cities dont operate 9 to 5. Not even 6am to Midnight. Citys have a pulse and flow 24 hours a day and those members of the community who work those long hours need a reliable way home to their families that does not dig deeply into their wallets to do so. I have worked a great deal in lower paying jobs and thankfully can walk or bike miles to get home. Not an option for most of the workers I know. Often I have seen employees asked to work till 1 or 2 AM and be forced to take a cab home, often negating whatever income they made during those 1 or 2 hours. You often see young women walking home late at night from work, or an evening out, because there is no safe way for them to get home after midnight. You see people who know they are too intoxicated to drive getting into their cars after the bar because they dont want to fight over a cab, or cant walk that far. There is no reason a city of Londons size should not have limited 24 hour service. There are only two arguments against increasing service that I am aware of. 1) Its a risk to the drivers safety: Which could be addressed by a simple moving partition installed on some buses for night work. 2) Its not profitable: Mass Transit is not suppose to be profitable. Mass transit is a necessary service provided to the community to enhance that communities existence, accessibility, viability and transportation need, and as such should be no more profitable to the City then a road performing the same function. As a member of Council I would propose an extension of service hours and routes throughout the city. Not only does it make sense, its just good business. We need extended bus service to the Industrial park areas and later hours so that working Londoners can get to and from work, and so that those looking for employment, are not hampered in that search due to inaccessibility of the workplace.
Posted on: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 19:02:25 +0000
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