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Plenty of travel (both commutes and long distance travel) which is too lengthy for bicycles / scooters, but doesn't have public transit servicing it.
by ummonk 7y ago
Plenty of travel (both commutes and long distance travel) which is too lengthy for bicycles / scooters, but doesn't have public transit servicing it.
- wffurr 7y agoSo build the transit. It's cheaper than highways and doubly so when you factor in the private vehicle cost borne by users of those highways.
- ummonk 7y agoElectric rail transit is significantly more expensive than highways, and operational costs are really high if you're trying to offer frequent service on less trafficked routes. Public transit is cost effective for urban cores and commuter rail routes to those urban cores, but everywhere else it's simply not economical.
- ysavir 7y agoI think that's GP's point: Instead of investing in EVs, we should be expanding public transport to reduce the dependencies on personal vehicles in the first place.
- chc 7y agoWho is "we"? I don't know about where you are, but where I live, there is tons of public transport, with more being developed all the time, but nobody wants to use it because the design of the area is fundamentally unsuited to mass transit. If we spent 1/10 the time and money making infrastructure for EVs, everyone would be able to have one already, but we don't. We keep trying and failing to make public transit work.
- ysavir 7y agoOkay, fine, we should build out public transport and start designing city and suburban features around public transport. Is that satisfactory?
- notJim 7y agoA lot of the reason for those long commutes is that housing in dense, urban areas served by public transit is too expensive. Affordable housing is a climate change issue.