Run buses longer
Spokesman-Review Letters to the Editor
In many places, buses run until midnight or later. However, here in Spokane, the buses barely run, even on weekends when they are so desperately needed. By not having them run more, not only do people have to drive their cars when they could use public transportation, which saves gas, money, and the environment, but people don’t have the choice to ride buses after they have spent a night drinking, which is dangerous to everyone.
Sure, they could take a taxi, but many people don’t have the money to afford a taxi, so they end up deciding to risk it and drive drunk. This might be dangerous for the driver, but it also puts innocent people at risk of getting hurt or even killed.
Luckily there is a way we can save lives in Spokane and help the environment. All Spokane needs to do is make the buses run longer. Maybe they would run less at night, but they should run so people will have the option of taking them. By doing this Spokane will become less polluted and lives will be saved. Everyone should write a letter to the Spokane Transit Authority asking them to run their buses longer.
Rachel Hanville
Cheney
In an ideal world, the buses would run longer, but in the world we live in, there's a major problem with the economy, meaning Spokane Transit can't afford to run buses all hours. As for not having bus service at night contributing to drunk driving incidents, I think we all know that it's a choice you make to drive drunk.
3 comments:
It is sad that budgets have cut so many late hour bus runs, and hopefully they will be reinstated when the economy picks up. I think they should have more late weekend hours when so many activities are going on downtown so you have the option of taking the bus home after the activity is over. Even before most of the cuts they had very few late night weekend runs so driving was the only choice.
Even if it was just in the summer, when there are lots of events, it would be great. There's First Fridays, Hoopfest, concerts in the park, Fireworks on the 4th of July, etc., etc. People who attend those events could benefit from having later hour bus options.
Funny how people who can least afford a car tend to have later working hours and less service concerning public transportation. I've always marveled at this, especially when I was in that circumstance.
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