Posted Feb 21, 2012, 5:24 PM
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Of the 10 counties in the Houston MSA, 5 of them have (to my knowledge) no access at all to "public transit"...
Liberty County-- 75,643
Waller County-- 43,205
Chambers County-- 35,096
Austin County-- 28,417
San Jac County-- 26,384
That's 208,745... very little (both population and geographic space) of Houston MSA's total. In fact there are huge swaths of Harris County that are 20+ miles from the nearest bus stop.
The conversation we need to be having in our Texas cities is how can we improve the QUALITY of transit services that we already have?? I still believe that most people don't ride public transit because they think it's "just for poor people" or are afraid of violence on the bus. Until that perception changes, transit numbers in cities like Houston and Dallas are always going to be down in the dumps.
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