VP Kamala Harris: ‘Good Transit Equals Vibrant Communities’

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HARRIS: “And so that's the context in which I think about this very important subject, which is the subject of public transit. And, you know, when I think about it, I think about good transit equals vibrant communities, right? So if we think about it in terms of an investment in public transit, it is an investment in job creation. It is an investment in improving communities. It is an investment increasing access to opportunity. Literally, if there is a bus line that was — is within and a bus stop that is within walking distance and not half a mile from someone's house, what that means in terms of their ability to have access to the job that may be miles away from where they live. And often it is the case for working people in America that they cannot afford to work where they live and they need to then travel some distance, and it shouldn't require that you have the financial ability to own a car, pay insurance, pay for new tires, to be able to go to work. So I think about public transit in that context.”