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Reminds me of people who complain about the cost of 1-mile of lightrail but don't know the cost of 1-mile of freeway.
by 0x4f3759df 9y ago
Reminds me of people who complain about the cost of 1-mile of lightrail but don't know the cost of 1-mile of freeway.
- CamperBob2 9y agoI'd probably be guilty of that one myself. Energy can be converted from one form to another when/where needed, and wheeled vehicles can go wherever there's a road, but fixed rail is stuck in one place forever. A rant for a different thread...
- 0x4f3759df 9y agoWheeled vehicles can go wherever we build roads... each road costs the taxpayer X / mile / year ... if we knew these costs we could make some rational decisions. The basic urbanism thesis posited by Charles Marohn and others, which I subscribe to, is that suburbs are not dense enough to maintain themselves (maintain roads, sewer, etc.) with the tax base