Quick, Take Cues from PBS and Build More Public Transportation!

PBS, in making an animated spinoff of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, discovered that its target audience doesn’t know what trolleys are—but thinks of them as adorable characters none the less. “In research, the trolley has become a very big character with the kids we’ve tested this with,” Kevin Morrison, the chief operating officer at The Fred Rogers Company told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “They’re 3 and 4 and have no clue what a trolley is but they like it and it plays a role in the Neighborhood.” Policymakers, the youth of the future have spoken. Get cracking on that high speed rail corridor or risk losing whatever generation comes after the millenials!