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Except that many cities have no interest in building the necessary highways to make more driving practical. Washington, DC, where I live, is unlikely to ever ha

Except that many cities have no interest in building the necessary highways to make more driving practical. Washington, DC, where I live, is unlikely to ever have any more inbound highways constructed, and the ones we have are already congested. Any new transportation capacity into the city will almost definitely be mass-transit. There's simply no political will within the city to do the kind of awful urban-renewal-style tearing up of neighborhoods that'd be necessary for it, and frankly we don't really care if suburbanites want to more easily drive in in their self-driving cars.

Grishnakh 11y ago
The problem there is that the DC subways are some of the worst in the nation now, thanks to years of mismanagement and neglect. They've had fatal accidents, and they're ridiculously slow because they single-track the trains so much. The Washington Post has articles about all the problems with the DC Metro, including how the train operators and controllers are at each others' throats, and the system can't get competent people to work there (they just get fed up and quit in a couple months).
- Zach_the_Lizard 11y ago
  >The problem there is that the DC subways are some of the worst in the nation now, thanks to years of mismanagement and neglect. The Metro has faced years of neglect, but it is still a functional system that moves hundreds of thousands of people daily. Despite all of the investment in roads, traffic is still a terrible mess from Gainesville and Fredericksburg to the District line. > They've had fatal accidents, and they're ridiculously slow because they single-track the trains so much. In the same year the DC Metro killed one person, 26 people died on DC's roads. Virginia and Maryland have their own traffic fatality reports. The single tracking is mostly a weekend issue. It's terrible, and makes the system useless on weekends half the time, but the commute is generally good. They have a railcar shortage that is currently hurting reliability partly caused by the Japanase tsunami delaying new equipment, but once that's solved the numbers will increase once again. Weekends will remain terrible until someone competent takes the reigns.

Grishnakh 11y ago

The problem there is that the DC subways are some of the worst in the nation now, thanks to years of mismanagement and neglect. They've had fatal accidents, and they're ridiculously slow because they single-track the trains so much. The Washington Post has articles about all the problems with the DC Metro, including how the train operators and controllers are at each others' throats, and the system can't get competent people to work there (they just get fed up and quit in a couple months).

Zach_the_Lizard 11y ago
>The problem there is that the DC subways are some of the worst in the nation now, thanks to years of mismanagement and neglect. The Metro has faced years of neglect, but it is still a functional system that moves hundreds of thousands of people daily. Despite all of the investment in roads, traffic is still a terrible mess from Gainesville and Fredericksburg to the District line. > They've had fatal accidents, and they're ridiculously slow because they single-track the trains so much. In the same year the DC Metro killed one person, 26 people died on DC's roads. Virginia and Maryland have their own traffic fatality reports. The single tracking is mostly a weekend issue. It's terrible, and makes the system useless on weekends half the time, but the commute is generally good. They have a railcar shortage that is currently hurting reliability partly caused by the Japanase tsunami delaying new equipment, but once that's solved the numbers will increase once again. Weekends will remain terrible until someone competent takes the reigns.