Public Transportation: The Kid-Factor
Decatur Metro | October 8, 2010Lord knows there are some rather vocal supporters of public transportation out there.
They could generally be described as the riders who ELECT to use public transportation over a car for their daily traversing. They are a spritely bunch. As passionate about their underfunded and underrepresented cause as any minority voice.
But have you ever noticed that it’s a minority without many kids?
It’s not like it has completely escaped me that transit-swingers are largely made up of young singles, DINKS, and retired persons, but I only recently became more acutely aware of what I’m terming “the kid-factor”.
What spurred me to this revelation? Well, having a kid.
Bottomline: Having a kid makes taking public transportation HARDER. Where once you could jump from feet to bus to escalator to train to bus to feet, now such hopping becomes a slog. A slow, stroller-folding, elevator-riding slog.