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>A big issue with public transportation is other people. You don't have the criminally minded youth in your personal car, you don't have a homeless guy in your
by midoridensha 4y ago
>A big issue with public transportation is other people. You don't have the criminally minded youth in your personal car, you don't have a homeless guy in your car, you don't have a mother on her phone while her children are crying at full volume while you're in your car.
I live in Tokyo, where everyone uses subways. None of these things are a problem here.
>it's often not because new tunnels are incredibly expensive and it's hard to fit new train lines into existing cities)
It's not hard to fit new train lines: you just build more tunnels. Even America has done this before: the DC Metro system was built mostly in the 1970s. Building new train lines is merely a matter of political will.
- luckylion 4y ago> I live in Tokyo, where everyone uses subways. None of these things are a problem here. We should all move to Tokyo then! Most societies are very different from Japan, so it very much is a problem if you're trying to increase public transportation there. > Building new train lines is merely a matter of political will. Possibly, and we don't have that will. Germany's energy policy with transition to renewable is lagging / failing because we can't build new & larger interconnections between regions because some field mice might be impacted or some neighbor doesn't want their view ruined.