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Originally Posted by mcgrath618
Can you explain to me, in plain English, what exactly you mean by the bolded? I’m trying to wrap my head around it.
Roughly where are you coming from, and where are you going? We certainly have gaps in our public transit, but I can almost guarantee that you can commute to where you’re going via another means than car.
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I don't think it really matters. As someone who's always lived in Philadelphia but never worked in Philadelphia, I can tell you there is an acute frustration among people who do not work in Philadelphia County but who live here when urban transportation purists act like everyone works in or near Center City. Many of us would love that to be the case, but there is an insane amount of data showing that Center City accounts for among the lowest job share % relative to the region than nearly any major city in this country. Said differently, we have the most decentralized job distribution in the country. While yes, we shouldn't plan transportation around the car, the city needs us (people who work in the burbs and elsewhere) just as much if not moreso than we need you. There should be a modicum of sympathy for people who choose to lay down their heads in Philadelphia County (by choice) when they could get a 3.5% raise by moving their home across county lines.
I've always said, the best thing Philadelphia could do to improve transit ridership is to get more jobs into the core. And the best way to do that is through reforming the tax structure in the city of Philadelphia, but don't tell Gym and Gauthier and Brooks that because their heads will explode.