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> My car gets 50-66% as many miles per gallon in the bay area as it does in other cities I think the idea is that if commuting sucks enough you’ll stop doing i
by Swizec 5y ago
> My car gets 50-66% as many miles per gallon in the bay area as it does in other cities
I think the idea is that if commuting sucks enough you’ll stop doing it and those emissions go to zero.
Or you’ll switch to public or shuttle transit and emissions per person per mile drop by some ridiculously high factor. A bus can pack some 80 people into the space of 4 cars and I bet emissions aren’t 80x those of a car either.
- mulmen 5y agoSure, if that’s an option. Where I live they shut down the bus route in front of my house during covid. There’s no plan to bring it back. The entire neighborhood was built around the idea of transit. Of course that’s priced in to rent and of course that didn’t go down. The next nearest bus stop is a 15 min walk from here. Still easily doable but not as nice, especially in the dark wet months. Service is unreliable so a bus is between 5 and 60 minutes away, if it isn’t cancelled. To get to the office I have to do a transfer downtown. That 5-45 minute ordeal involves standing in human waste (mostly urine) with a very real risk of being shot or robbed or just randomly assaulted verbally or physically. Or I can pay a $1,000.00 premium to live near the office. I don’t live way out in the suburbs either. I am within the city limits in a “transit first” neighborhood with great walkability. I held up my end of this deal. The problem with making cars infeasible is that public transit is simply terrible here, and we have one of the best systems in the country.