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Tokyo’s transit system (or any other characteristic of the city people here so often praise) doesn’t exist in a vacuum. The US cannot reproduce it. And no, the
by decafninja 3y ago
Tokyo’s transit system (or any other characteristic of the city people here so often praise) doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
The US cannot reproduce it. And no, the reason has nothing to do with cars which people here so love to blame.
Even if a US city were to successfully reproduce all the hardware parts of the Tokyo train system, it would quickly devolve into something like the NYC subway with all its problems.
- jwells89 3y agoPart of it comes down to the country’s culture which has more respect for public utilities overall, but I think another big aspect is that businesses in Japan aren’t nearly as bad as their western counterparts about cutting corners to juice profits, which means things like trains get the level of maintenance and care required to keep them clean, timely, and functional. Of course Japan has its own set of issues — no country is a utopia after all — but livability in the major metro areas is not among them.
- franga2000 3y agoI'd love to hear how it has nothing to do with cars, given the plethora of evidence that car use, the culture around car ownership and the lobbying of car companies created and continue to create a lot of the problems preventing effective public transport development not just in the US but all over the world.
- 93po 3y agothey were specifically saying that even if the infrastructure existed, regardless of lobbying and political influence, it would not work. obviously lobbying and influence is the reason we can't even try.
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