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[deleted] t1_itt8zah wrote

Reply to comment by International_Tea259 in Cambridge completely eliminated parking minimums yesterday!! by RealBurhanAzeem

  1. All public transit should be fee-free and paid through taxes.
  2. Yes, busses can be good for certain disabled people, but not all. There are a lot of disabled people not in wheelchairs. And busses also have limited wheelchair capacity.
  3. I want expanded mass transit, too. But these things have to happen side-by-side. We need a ring line. We need a line that goes from Medford to Somerville to Cambridge to Allston that then also links up all of the Green Lines.
  4. We also have things in-between. In addition to essentially cars or minivans, The Ride also has small busses. Subsidizing taxis and rideshares is easy and doesn't require much more management cost, but if we really wanted to be efficient we would expand The Ride and make it more effective/efficient. As-is, it's extremely unavailable, slow, and late.
    1. Edit: Also, The Ride is part of the state government. It's not something that Cambridge could implement by itself.
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