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Probably won't work for me. The first rule of transit is that you don't bike 3/4 of a mile past your destination to walk 3/4 of a mile back. There's a number of huge business parks with small-to-medium-to-US government sized employers *on* Crabbs Branch. That would be a more natural place to put cabi and would ensure a higher number of daily trips.

I'd really object to placing a cabi station AT a men's shelter. Cabi is a community resource, not a homeless resource. There's also nothing else out that far. Putting it out there would ensure no one but the homeless used it.
That would be a major failure if it was the case. The point of community resources is to attract a large number of regular users so that the less fortunate can also be served, not to dedicate transportation systems to the less fortunate so they can be a chronically underfunded boondoggle and politically unpopular for the average citizen.

The "Poverty First" thinking is how the country's bus service has been developed in the past 50 years and it's a large reason as to why bus transportation has lost the middle class and thus doesn't serve the poor well either.

by JackOLantern on Jun 14, 2011 12:26 pm • link • report