为什么城市需要好的公交短文★★★★★
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People with a car often say that buses are for those who have no choice, and that a city with good roads does not need good buses.
有车的人常说公交是给没办法的人坐的，一个路修得好的城市不需要好公交。
I worked for a year in a shop on a street with a good road and a bad bus, and I saw what that costs.
我在一条路很好、公交很差的街上的一家店干过一年，我知道这要付出什么代价。
Half of the people I work with live two hours away, because a house near the town is more than they can pay.
和我一起干活的人里，一半住在两个小时以外，因为城边的房子他们买不起。
They came to work tired, and one of them gave up the job when the last bus went earlier in the winter.
他们上班时很累，其中一个人冬天最后一班车提前收车之后，就把工作辞了。
A city with bad buses pushes those people out, and then it cannot find people to cook, to clean, to drive, to sell.
公交差的城市会把这些人挤出去，然后就找不到人做饭、打扫、开车、卖东西。
So a good bus is not a gift for one group. It is how a city keeps the people it depends on close enough to come to work.
所以一条好公交不是给哪一群人的礼物。它是一座城市让自己离不开的那些人，近到还能来上班的办法。