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> Why isn't anyone working on improving commutes through dense cityscapes? As someone who's been on and off involved in moving-people-technology, it's two-fold
by techsupporter 6y ago
> Why isn't anyone working on improving commutes through dense cityscapes?
As someone who's been on and off involved in moving-people-technology, it's two-fold: it's "in the physical world" so you have all of the attendant problems (objections from people around the proposed construction, overlapping government bodies, cost, and that "the real world" isn't "sexy" for investment).
And second, if you make something that's very efficient but looks too much like public transport, there's a whole market of people, at least in North America, who simply won't ride it. Where I live, I had several coworkers who lived next to a bus route or train line that went directly to our offices and they'd still pay for a daily Uber.
- noir_lord 6y agoIntegrated light rail/subways that are well designed and well run are pretty much the best mass transport solution we've come up with. The tricky part is the well designed and well run part and as you alluded to they run into a lot of real world issues during construction. They also really need to be state run at break-even or even subsidized since the benefit is the general increase in economic productivity across the whole region rather than an opportunity to make a lot of money. So politically they don't really fly in the US.