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> This is a basic contradiction which I am not sure is solvable. Why do people say things like this? Have you ever been to a major European city? Most have wel
by richk449 9y ago
> This is a basic contradiction which I am not sure is solvable.
Why do people say things like this? Have you ever been to a major European city? Most have well designed public transit systems that are much more convenient than driving. They usually manage this through a combination of local subways, regional trains to go into and out of the city core, and high speed rail to travel between cities. Chinese and Indian cities are implementing the same thing.
If SF actually cared about making public transit convenient (i.e. if Transit First was anything other than an empty slogan), they would have police ticket those cars that drive in the bus only lanes.
I just don't understand this bizarre behavior of insisting that problems are insolvable, when plenty of others have implemented adequate solutions.
- _Tev 9y agoTo be fair, European cities are often terrible for driving, because the road system is poorly designed. And expanding public transport takes precedence. That is also technically achievable in US, but much less politically achievable.