Are Transportation Planners Wrong?

Are transportation planners are wrong when they argue that public mass transit is the best way to help the poor?

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August 14, 2001, 9:00 AM PDT

Samuel Staley, who directs the Reason Public Policy Institute's Urban Futures Program, and Leonard Gilroy, Urban Policy Analyst for RPPI, explain why transportation planners are wrong when they argue that public mass transit is the best way to help the poor. "The researchers surveyed 400 households to find out how important various things were to determining economic self-sufficiency. The study, published in the Journal of Urban Affairs, found that the two most important factors determining economic self-sufficiency were whether adults in the household had some work experience and whether they had a car."

Thanks to Chris Steins

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