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Right. Commuter satisfaction has dropped something like 20 percentage points in the last three years alone.

Not to mention the growing populations of places like Woodbridge, which is 15 miles of I-95 hell south of the last Metro stops.

 

I appear to have started a lengthy discussion because of an omission in a short post. Yes people can (although most do not) live without a car. But if you have a car, it has to be insured. Nobody lives without needing medical care, so requiring insurance is not onerous. It'd be better if care and payment were just guaranteed by a single system, but our system has too many built in pressure points of influential (wealthy) participants for that to happen.

 

Yeah, what could possibly happen? Probably not ... just like Americans in foreign countries won't need the help of any of the ambassadors that aren't there because Trump fired them all.

 

A good friend lives in Bethesda. Instead of taking transit (a bus, I believe) for the 12 or 13 mile trip to the Hill, he drives. When he has used transit, it took him an hour. Driving that far "only" takes an hour during peak commuting times.

He's very jealous of my four minute (depending on the traffic light) commute.

 

OK. But overall that 9 percent number tracks fairly closely with the number of people who didn't have health insurance.

I guess to continue the analogy, we would make these people either buy cars or pay a fee to reduce the overall risk of those participating in the car insurance pool.

 

Why don't we just all agree that the "car insurance is required!" argument is a really shitty one?

 

Yes, that's correct. I was just arguing that "people don't need cars" isn't always that simple, as NC pointed out earlier.

What that also doesn't show is that I'm pretty sure employers in DC proper are required by law to offer public transportation subsidies to employees.

People in DC also use Zipcar a lot, which has insurance built into its charges already like any other rental agency. You need to have a driver's license, obviously, but you only pay insurance when you're actually using a Zipcar.

Unfortunately for the analogy, fee-for-service is one of the biggest drivers of exorbitant costs in health care.

 

Having grown up in Lorton, I'm convinced there's no worse stretch of road in American than I-95 between the Occoquan River bridge and Fredericksburg. That's a rant for another thread, though ...

 

Here's the opposing viewpoint, and it's a hell of a rant.

NSFW because the blogger has a fuel-injected potty mouth.

The Rude Pundit: Fuck You, Rural Elitists

 

So wouldn't electricity and phone service be better if it was guaranteed by one system?

 

Who needs vetting!?!

 

I wouldn't do that if I were you. He could become an axe murderer, child molester, etc. Don't associate yourself with this suspicious looking Nathan character.