Twin Crises: Immigration & Mass Transit Infrastructure - Frosty Wooldridge
April 11, 2009
By Frosty Wooldridge
"Increased transit ridership has pushed many cities to a 'tipping point' at which adding new mass transit infrastructure makes economic sense," Rubenstein said. "Mass transit has increased for decades…in most cities, even if the share of trips using mass transit were to triple, the drop in highway congestion would soon be overwhelmed by population growth."
Without a doubt, the reason stems from the 1965 Teddy Kennedy Immigration Reform Act that pushed immigration limits from 170,000 a year since 1924 to 1.2 to 1.5 million annually starting in 1965. That single act added 100 million people to the USA in 40 years. If left unchanged, that same act adds 100 million in 30 years.
Unfortunately, infrastructure costs run sky-high in 2009. Voters disdain new taxes for construction. Additionally, federal gas taxes fail to fund projects because people drive less with higher prices.
"So while the public's desire for mass transit systems is up, the reliability of the infrastructure is on the decline," Rubenstein said. "More than 54 percent of bus fleets will reach the end of their expected service lives over the next six years."
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