Micro-EVs, as these vehicles are known, could enable cities to solve a long-standing mass-transit problem: How do you get commuters who don't live or work within walking distance of a transit station to take public transport?
Fifteen years of construction delays, accidents, cost overruns and a changed political climate have led voters to block further use of local sales tax revenue for subway construction, and forced leaders to look elsewhere for mass transit solutions to growing problems with traffic and urban sprawl.
Short-distance car sharing with electrics could help bridge the gap between a commuter's home and mass transit — the so-called first-mile problem — or from mass transit to the workplace, the last-mile problem.
On the other hand, mass transit has not solved the problems.
Roth and Tony Cenicola, a staff photographer, along with many other Times employees, couldn't get home that night because of the problems with mass transit.
And a few people discussed their worries about big-city problems like mass transit, aging infrastructure and homelessness -- not things you hear about much from pig farmers in Iowa.
Some residential tenants have fled the area and many businesses are plagued by problems with mass transit and other issues, like New Yorkers' reluctance to work near the trade center site, concerns about air quality and the absence of an estimated 100,000 people who worked in the trade center and the surrounding area.
But when it comes to mass transit, that really isn't the problem, as Mr. Claypool's other slides for the elite pinstripers made clear.
As Matt Yglesias explained at Vox last week, this hints at a deeper problem with American mass transit [emphasis added]:Everyone knows European cities have, in general, superior mass transit to American ones.
After weeks of dithering as a deadline for the federal grant neared and then expired, Mr. Silver has now ensured the uncertain future of an already strained mass transit system and the continued growing problems of gridlock and tailpipe emissions.
The possibility that the city, and perhaps the state, might reduce aid to mass transit to help solve their budget problems has caused many transit advocates and city officials this week to start talking about the specter of an unusually large rise in the fare, perhaps to as much as $2, which could become reality in short order after the elections in November.
