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How can you not effectively scale a streetcar system when you can just attach more carts?
by pantalaimon 4y ago
How can you not effectively scale a streetcar system when you can just attach more carts?
- twoodfin 4y agoI dunno, but somehow rush hour for public transit is often crowded and unpleasant, which suggests a solution is non-trivial.
- Sharlin 4y agoRush hour in a private car is a very unpleasant experience to most people as well, it doesn't help much that you get sit inside your own metal box. Cars take so much space that vast amounts of taxpayer money has been poured on infrastructure in order to try to keep traffic flowing – and we still have congestion.
- chordalkeyboard 4y agoif it is running near capacity, its crowded, and therefore unpleasant, which causes people to attempt to adjust their schedule to use it at other times, shifting the load if its not running near capacity, its wasting a lot of space, and therefore more wasteful than private automobiles in both cases the scale of the system and the centrally planned nature of the system make its response time lag behind the people using it, causing them to seek alternatives if they are able