[_DeadFred_]

I live in a small (9000) very rural town with low wage jobs (so not a huge tax base) in a reddest of red state and we have our own very nice/clean bus system (it uses bus vans not huge busses). It not impossible in the US, it just depends on if the people of your town care to have it.

[potato3732842]

Same situation where I grew up, blue state though.

NY politics is the problem, not anything else. That whole damn state is just so bleak, nothing gets done without so many pounds of flesh being taken out by so many parties that things just stop getting done.

[danaris]

And yet, somehow, it's still massively better than when Pataki was governor...

At least we are now capable of passing a budget bill less than 5 months late, anyway.