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The US will never adopt public transportation as their primary means of mobility. Never. There will be skyscrapers in the suburbs before Americans deign to rid
by intopieces 7y ago
The US will never adopt public transportation as their primary means of mobility. Never.
There will be skyscrapers in the suburbs before Americans deign to ride a rail car to work en masse.
We will have AR-based work-from-home before Americans wait at a bus stop in any meaningful size cohort.
There is simply too much mistrust in those systems and too much desire for independent mobility.
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- sneak 7y agoAdditionally, US cities are built for individual, single-rider automobiles. It sucks real bad, but even if 100% of americans decided that we hate cars and driving, we’re still stuck physically with thousands of acres built upon individual mobility and no mixed-use whatsoever, situations where you have to drive 3+km just to buy a soda. It’s madness, and the madness is actually encoded into the physical structures as a sunk cost. We have to work with and around that in any practical way forward, which is terrible.