PUBLIC Transportation Volume 2?

Question

I Asked the Question a short while ago and I Got a Lot of Short Answers---Some Were Down Right Calous and Insensative to the Plight of the LESS Privilaged---I for one am a Senior Citizen---Disabled---On a Fixed Income Because of Health Due to Age-Related Limited Capacity to Earn any Aditional Wages Besides My Social Security---That May not Mean anything to most of you---But to Us Seniors ANYTHING We Can Save Means More Benificial FOOD,MEDICINE,CARE, ACTIVITIES---So You See---When you Stick Your Nose in the air and Look the other way---You will Eventually Be in our Shoes and be asking someone to Lighten the Load on YOUR BACK!!!---I Am Not Asking this Question So much for myself,as I Am For the People who CAN NOT AFFORD to buy a Car and My Fellow ECOLOGISTS---I ASK AGAIN,Why is there NO PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION on Weekends and Holidays???---I Am ASKING for some Educated Answers---NOT the SO WHAT !!! Sad answers---We Seriously need to address this Problem---Signed---JEM

Answer 1

The public transportation cut back hrs and get paid more money you need to get 300 names of people that want the transportation on weekends then give it to the register of voters and have them put it on the ballet for april 07 i know you can do this them the public transportation will have to increase there hrs period **** luck

Answer 2

Because it is cost prohibitive to operate.
There is not "no public transportation" on weekends and holidays - most major cities operate on those days, but at a lesser capacity/ frequency due to decreased ridership.

Public transportation has to be paid for, and is generally paid for by working commuters. Operating transportation to meet the needs of a few on the weekends and holidays means that large systems are being run at regular cost but bringing in a substantially smaller amount of revenue, therefore operating in the red.
I realize the plight of the elderly must be recognized, but on who's shoulders? Should raise the rates of the employed to meet the needs of the retired? Sorry, that already happens with a little thing called FICA - because trust me I am of the age I will never see a nickel in social security despite the fact that I will have paid into it for 50 years. I am not willing to also pay additional costs in transportation fees so that the elderly can have weekend/ holiday public transport. At my age (over 20 under 40) I base my life on what I can afford AND put away 5-7% of my income (aside from the FICA that I now pay as well) to cover my retirement. I cannot afford to be generous with my transportation budget.
I am sorry if I seem unsympathetic, but the working class is already paying enough, and in order to advance public transportation to weekends and holidays it would mean either more taxes or higher fees per rider, and that is simply not right.

Answer 3

I nice way to save money is to collect soda cans. separating the opener from the can.

the can makes Short change, because the factory has to clean all the ink off.

But the openers are straight aluminum with no paint stripping process. Making you more money.

it can be a little recycling hobby.

About your bus situation, their is usually a bus just for senior citizens to call and they will come pick you up from your house. They know that once your a certain age your not suppose to drive if you can't operate a car properly. If their isn't a transit, dart transportation you should possibly get senior citizens to gather and boycott the transit bus line, for answer and service.