[sustran] How to pay for Public Transport

[Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory]

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>  in a recent posting Yasmin Chowdhury wrote: "...Sounds like a bargain to me!"

IN a recent post I mentioned that it was very unfortunate that cities 
had to rely on advertising - some of it very anti public transport - to 
pay for public transport (collective and individual)... while 
governments paid for all sorts of silly or serious - sometimes deadly - 
things.

I am not entirely sure it is off topic but sometimes it seems like we 
talk about countries as if they only have transportation systems. I 
don't mean that urban planning for reducing the need mobility or energy 
sources aren't mentioned often enough in Sustran, New Mob., Lots Less 
Cars - and they aren't - but that as proponents of sustainable transport 
in various places we are just playing with whatever the government at 
the time - and successive governments - have left over from all the 
other spending.

So, is there something we can or want to do as IDENTIFIED sustainable 
transport supporters against, e.g. the War in Iraq? To say we are not 
political or partisan misses the point: One new jet fighter equals a lot 
of padded seats (or one <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-22> costs the 
same as at least 200 buses).

Thanks,
T

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