Better public transit than Seattle, NYC, Philly, Chicago, and San Francisco? Seriously. Seriously. I’ve lived all of these places and I gotta tell you, it’s bad everywhere in the US and the problem isn’t the transit. It’s people.
So your suggestion is to attack transit in America in a way that would not work for American because of America’s unique problems with scale. Good to know. Do you know what would happen in most major cities in the US if all the car drivers suddenly had to take public transit? It would overwhelm any system you put in place. And the pollution would be astronomical.
I’m all for walkable cities and suburbs, and I’m even good with reducing the number of people who need to drive and therefore cars on the road. But this isn’t a zero sum game. So unless you can show me a plan that is viable to take the place of the system I don’t really want to hear naysaying about electric robotaxis or any of that.
Americans don’t have problems with scale, they are just toi car dependent to think of anything else.
Those people that stink, guess what: they are desperate and don’t have any other form of transportation than to take an underfunded Bus.
Imagine the busses would receive a checkup and cleaning everytime they complete their route, come every 5 minutes, and wouldn’t have to wait with the car traffic. Suddenly, it sounds much better doesn’t it?
Those are reasons to fund better public transit, not double down on smaller cars.
Better public transit than Seattle, NYC, Philly, Chicago, and San Francisco? Seriously. Seriously. I’ve lived all of these places and I gotta tell you, it’s bad everywhere in the US and the problem isn’t the transit. It’s people.
Literally any city in Europe or china has better public transit than anywhere in the US, and it’s not even close.
So your suggestion is to attack transit in America in a way that would not work for American because of America’s unique problems with scale. Good to know. Do you know what would happen in most major cities in the US if all the car drivers suddenly had to take public transit? It would overwhelm any system you put in place. And the pollution would be astronomical.
I’m all for walkable cities and suburbs, and I’m even good with reducing the number of people who need to drive and therefore cars on the road. But this isn’t a zero sum game. So unless you can show me a plan that is viable to take the place of the system I don’t really want to hear naysaying about electric robotaxis or any of that.
This has been studied.
Americans don’t have problems with scale, they are just toi car dependent to think of anything else.
Those people that stink, guess what: they are desperate and don’t have any other form of transportation than to take an underfunded Bus.
Imagine the busses would receive a checkup and cleaning everytime they complete their route, come every 5 minutes, and wouldn’t have to wait with the car traffic. Suddenly, it sounds much better doesn’t it?