Fixing Buffalo and Public Transport

So it has been announced that through some wheeling and dealing that the NFTA would not be losing the federal funding that it feared it would be. With bi-partisan effort, members of the two capitalist parties have found a way to somehow provide money to support this important transportation method.

This is good news, though the funding won't be anywhere near what the majority of the users need it to be in order to make it affordable. The greatest user of public transport is the poor and lower classes.

I'm quite sure that the capitalist parties would love nothing more than to privatize the buses and Metro Rail (subway) system. It would allow the profits to go to Wall Street and the wealthy rather than to the public. Also opposed to public transportation are the car manufacturers and sales institutions. Public transport ruins sales for them and the insurance companies that make way too much money from the sales of cars and insurance. Most of which leaves the area, unless you are buying form a very small dealer or a private sale.

It's all about the money. Who is it going to?  Who is benefiting?

If people were serious about fixing up Buffalo and the region, improvements to the public transportation system would be on the top of the pile of work to be done. Properly maintained public transport can save on road repair, traffic jams, prevent accidents, and a host of other issues that would only benefit the community and the people that use it.

Nope. Can't have it. That doesn't fit our consumer capitalist culture.

I don't care about the consumer culture.

I care about people.

So the poor now have a way to get around for a while, until the next battle over the budget.

Then we'll wait and see what comes around.