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In the postwar era, mass transit declined sharply across America. But in San Francisco, a few differences helped the Bay Area’s transit system bounce back.

A talk with the author of The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight.

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Hunter College urban policy and planning professor Nicholas Dagen Bloom argues that the transit deserts in much of the United States were not inevitable—but caused by a lack of funding to sustain high-quality service, the encouragement of auto-centric planning, and white flight from dense city centers to far-flung suburbs.

By the time the mood shifted and cities and states became more receptive to subsidizing transit, there wasn’t much left to subsidize.

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Decades of underinvestment in streetcar, bus and train service coupled with an increase in public funding and planning priorities to make roads fast, smooth and far-reaching, help explain today's transit situation.

Don’t let buses and subways become another casualty of the pandemic.

A failure to adequately fund transit has left buses short of their full capacity for moving people.