Saturday Data: Mass Transit

 


     Many, maybe most Alabamians are addicted to their cars.
     Despite traffic jams and construction delays and sometimes sky high gas prices, we drive our cars mostly without any passengers many, many miles each day.

     Alabama law forbids the use of state gas taxes for Mass Transit. It's highways and more highways for us. 
     The are no light rail systems, no monrails, and no subways in the state. 
     There are buses.

     December the first is the 60th anniversary of the Montogmery Bus Boycott, a rising up by mostly African-American city residents against the system of segregation that relegated them to the literal back of the bus, required them to to give up their seats for whites. Rosa Parks and a lot of other brave people went on a year-long strike and when it ended, the courts had outlawed the system.
     On Thursday NPR broadcast a story focusing on the upcoming anniversary, and the current status of the Montgomery bus system. Not very good was the conclusion. 

Here's the NPR report. 

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