So a post on the Austinist made me realize something. Stop making mass transit jokes. Let’s make this a moral issue. I mean everyone in this town frickin’ believes that mass transit is good, and yet very few ride it. Let’s start making everyone feel bad for not taking it. Really bad.

It’s like sleeping with your sister. This isn’t even really an issue now a days. Why? Because anytime anyone mentions incest they mention it in a bad, morally repugnant light. You don’t even have to think about how gross it is to you, the social conditioning is already there. You already have societal shame there to make sure you don’t. Let’s do the same with driving your car! Let’s make driving alone in your car to work like sleeping with your sister! It’s morally repugnant. It disgusting. Only a backwoods yokel would do it (well probably because they don’t have any public transit, but still).

Don’t make ironic jokes about the fact that no one takes mass transit. You’re killing the idea before it’s even born.

The thing about public transit is that it gets better the more people who ride it. Right now I get 20-40 minutes between busses. But if I can get all of my neighbors to ride we might get 10-30 minutes between busses. And eventually we could get to busses every five minutes, which would completely negate most convenience issues (since it’s not really the speed of the bus but making the connections that takes the time).

You’ve gotta stop commuting alone to work. It’s a filthy disgusting habit.