Less Bus....
So Montgomery County Maryland has one bus to put on the 46 line.
Just one bus. I have figured out where the others have not gone. As a matter of fact I have figured out where no buses have gone. I am now grateful for the one bus on the 46 line in Montgomery County Maryland. The only problem with this is that I had to move halfway across the county to be grateful.
Bowling Green Kentucky has benches on more corners than I can count. I wish that we had been able to have these in Maryland. Instead we stood. Here there are benches.
There are no buses, but there are benches.
So one has to ask oneself why the benches. Good question. They are never used, some of them are impossible to get to as they are on the opposite side of large ditches from the sidewalk. But I'll give it to them, they have the benches.
Bowling Green is the third largest city in Kentucky (as amazing as that may seem). The traffic has become horrid. Everyone drives, Everyone. One person per car, one car for every person in the city. So one would think, especially with the cost of petrol, that buses would be a great alternative. Not so.
It is not a Bowling Green sort of thing. People just don't take buses.
Now I have to amend that last statement. Some people take buses, the college students take buses. They take them from one end of campus to the other. Oh and they take them from the main campus out to satelite parking. Then they get in their cars and cause more traffic problems.
It is amazing to think that there is a place, with the population that Bowling Green has, that does not yet have a public transit system, but here it is.
A state of mind me thinks. What will it take to change that state of mind? Perhaps something as simple as it becoming out of style, sort of like the mullet. But that will take a lot for here, I saw one of those here the other day.