Report: Texas Jobs Near Mass Transit, Commuters Aren't
*Correction appended
Most jobs in Texas cities are near some sort of public transit, but most metropolitan workers aren’t, according to a new report by the Brookings Institute.
In Texas’ six largest metropolitan areas, 66.1 percent of jobs are accessible by public transit. But only 23 percent of workers can reach their jobs in 90 minutes or less using public transit, according to the report released Wednesday by the public policy think tank in Washington, D.C.
Texas’ numbers are below the national average in the report, titled “Where the Jobs Are: Employer Access to Labor by Transit ...
Comments (3)
Anya Khan
San Antonios VIA is wonderful. Not perfect but wonderful. Yes my stop was .6 miles from the house, ,but for 1.35 I went from one the west to downtown in comfort. It was also one or two transfers depending on the route I wanted. I saved energy, stress, and parking.
Jim Vance
After 65+ years of quite deliberate efforts by local economic development interests across the state in conjunction with well-funded highway construction programs (until recent years, at any rate) at both State and Federal levels whose evolving objectives meshed nicely with the political insiders' priority toward construction of metropolitan road networks in support of expansive low-density suburban growth patterns designed around use of personal automobiles, the concluding observations of the Brookings report should come as no real surprise to anyone.
Christine Lund
Then the answer to build cheap, nearby neighborhoods for the poor to live in while they wait on the rich. Texas has no place for real normal people to live that is within their budget.
What we need is small bachelor sized apartments or one bedroom apartments under $250 a month. That is one weeks pay for a minimum wage earner. Since Texas has 41% of the population living on minimum wage or less, we need to places for them to live.
Or we need a 'living wage' across the board in Texas.