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Originally Posted by tucson
TV should use some of their buses and chg. 50cents per ride and have volunteers do the driving.
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The liability issues for such a venture are immense, both for TV and any volunteer driver(s).
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Originally Posted by carlent
since I stared the topic, i will say one more thing if i could.
It is a shame that so many of you are so short-sighted that you can not see that at some point maybe sooner than later, you will need public transportation. At some point you might not be able to get from here to their in your cart. At that point, you will all be crying for a little van to pick you up and take you to the Doctor and to the grocery. but now, when you are content to buzz around in the car and cart, you have not the vision to understand that this is a major concern to a lot of people in TV. You just don't see these folks on this forum. It does not mean they are not out there in numbers.
Come on people......put your thinking caps on.....
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It's not a matter of being short-sighted, but probably more a matter of affordability. Your idea is one of many good ones, provided the funding is there to make it happen.
My other "home" is just outside DC, in a MD county with every possible social service you can envision, and a tax bill (annually increasing 5-15%) to match. It's a monument to the concept that
government is
parent to all, and must pay for all the needs of its
children. Unfortunately, there seems to be fewer and fewer of us who realize that
government is
all of us, not some creature residing in a municipal building, and
government's ability to pay is really what we, individually and collectively, can afford.
So, the first goal would seem to be to find a private means for fulfilling your idea - whether by a TV-endorsed volunteer group, faith-based service, or other non-subsidzed approach. The only other way is to dip into everyone's pockets and establish a public entity with the job. There just is no free lunch!