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More trains please. High-speed rail between cities, lightrail between suburbs, streetcars between neighborhoods, and better shoes for everywhere else.
by matthoiland 3y ago
More trains please. High-speed rail between cities, lightrail between suburbs, streetcars between neighborhoods, and better shoes for everywhere else.
- CamperBob2 3y agoYes, fixed rail at a time when people no longer have to crowd themselves into cities. That's the ticket.
- kcb 3y agoMake cities decent places to live, grow a family, and hang out instead of just workday commute destinations.
- bitwize 3y agoMore people should be living in cities. We need not only fewer cars but also fewer freestanding, single-family homes. Continental Europeans trounce Americans in land management in part because continental Europeans do not abhor density the way Americans do.
- CamperBob2 3y agoDon't worry, your opinion will change about 12 seconds after your first child arrives.
- bitwize 3y ago1) I'll probably never have children. 2) Childbearing couples seem to function just fine in relatively dense European urban housing. The idea that we somehow need space to spread out is largely confined to the Anglosphere, which is why land management problems are so much worse in the Anglosphere.
- adastra22 3y agoIf you've ever been to Tokyo, Taipei, or any old European capital, you'd know that "crowding people into cities" can be a good and beautiful thing, when the infrastructure is there.