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Except this is mostly theory that doesn't work out in practice. For example, a lane at capacity with full busses is more efficient than a lane of cars. But in
by beerandt 5y ago
Except this is mostly theory that doesn't work out in practice.
For example, a lane at capacity with full busses is more efficient than a lane of cars.
But in reality, busses aren't full and there aren't enough to utilize 100% of a lane.
Inefficient cars fully utilizing that lane capacity ends up being more efficient overall than potentially efficient busses inefficiently filling seats and leaving lane capacity unused.
- JoeAltmaier 5y agoSwap car and bus in that sentence, and it's still a good argument. Anyway. My old boss Eric Carlsen had a degree in City Planning. His thesis was modelling LA with busses running on every major cross-street on 15-minute schedules, and funding it with a gas tax. Ridership would be low at first, but as folks came to prefer busses over cars it could change. The thing was, at ever stage of adoption it was a better system than we have now. Less congestion; less cost per-capita and so on. So we can make up excuses for 'everybody needs a car' but we can also do the numbers.