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But most people don't go to most places. Streetcars and trains are more efficient at bringing people to places that most people want to go. You can still have a

• badpun 3y ago
  > Streetcars and trains are more efficient at bringing people to places that most people want to go. They rarely are. Between walking to the stop, waiting for train/bus, time on train/bus, then walking from the stop - car is almost always faster. Not to mention, all that walking outside in foul weather and sitting in enclosed places with lots of strangers will get you sick regularly. That's my experience, from European cities with good public transport systems.
  • carlmr 3y ago
    >Not to mention, all that walking outside in foul weather and sitting in enclosed places with lots of strangers will get you sick regularly. In my experience your immune system adapts. If you switch you will be a bit more sick for a year, but then you get a stronger immune system and it goes back to normal again.
  • nayuki 3y ago
    > Between walking to the stop, waiting for train/bus, time on train/bus, then walking from the stop - car is almost always faster. Until 100 people want to do the same thing as you, each in their own car. Traffic congestion and parking are painful. Mass transit exists for a reason.
• Nullabillity 3y ago
  They do an OK job moving at serving capitalism (moving people between sparser residential areas and super dense commercial areas). But for any kind of social gathering (where you'd want to move residential-residential) the system becomes far more complex, and you lose any hope of having a direct connection. (And that's also ignoring how miserable the last mile problem is.)