The paper explores the critical concern that while agglomeration economies continue to produce a variety of employment centers across metropolitan space, relatively scarce public transit investments might be directed invariably to edifying economic centers populated by social elites who already enjoy multiple mobility choices.
Ground transportation to and from the three airports was scarce, with mass transit service largely suspended and many roads impassable.
It is a fundamental disagreement over how scarce funds for public transit should be spent: expanding the 104-mile BART system or maintaining what already exists.
A subway spokesman, Jeremy Soffin, said the extension was the most cost-efficient way to provide reliable service at a time when transit financing is scarce.
With one or both parents dead and food and money scarce, some children are being taken to transit centres in the hope that they will fare better there.
And while ride-hailing services predominantly serve Manhattan, they are spreading to parts of the city where public transit is limited and taxis are scarce.
Critics have argued that the retention deals ultimately shift the tax burden from large corporations to small and midsize companies and deprive the city coffers of scarce revenues that could be used to improve mass transit and schools.
It is argued that lack of compatibility between passenger needs and managements' perception of those needs could result in the misallocation of scarce resources as well as growing passenger dissatisfaction with transit services.
There were scarce details as to whether or not the planned transit alternatives would still be built out.
A transit line, called the Corridor Cities Transitway, would compete for scarce federal construction money along with two other Maryland projects: a Purple Line between Bethesda and New Carrollton and a Red Line in Baltimore.
In his dissertation, Onesimo Flores Dewey studied how the governments of cities limited by scarce fiscal resources and weak institutions enhance their transportation planning and regulatory capacities to provide the public with cleaner, safer, efficient, and reliable public transit alternatives.
