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Americans are never going to have significant transit upgrades - metro, long distance or short haul. NYC is "building" err...painting new bus lanes to LGA (les
by haltingproblem 3y ago
Americans are never going to have significant transit upgrades - metro, long distance or short haul.
NYC is "building" err...painting new bus lanes to LGA (less than 3 miles) for 500million and will probably take like 10 years since 5 is the planned duration [1]!
Forget China, other countries in Asia and Western Europe plan and build whole new metros in that time for that cost.
Americans cannot build new things. Period. Maybe we should give up and focus on fixing/replacing existing infra. Like your cousin who cannot graduate high school...maybe he should just take up a trade??
[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvjvvw/bus-lanes-to-laguardia-airport-will-cost-dollar500-million-and-nobody-seems-to-know-why https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvjvvw/bus-lanes-to-laguardi...
- ronnier 3y agoAdditionally, in China one can ride trains without the fear of being physically harmed by other passengers. In many cities in the US, taking public transportation is a risk to your life.
- MaxHoppersGhost 3y agoThere are certainly instances of this happening but this is mostly overblown by the media. The US is a huge country with millions taking public transit safely everyday. I know more people who have been robbed on transit (via knife) in Europe than in the US. There are a lot of news articles about stabbings on trains in Europe as well.
- monkaiju 3y agoThis is extremely overblown...
- hifromLA 3y agoI would love to say this cynicism is unwarranted but it’s nigh impossible to make that case. What transit America is building is either grossly overpriced compared to peer nations, the wrong type of transit, or both. Compare Seattle Link to the Vancouver sky train for one example. Or the 2nd ave subway in New York. Or all of the transit we’ve built in the middle of literal freeways (LA, DC, SF). And why oh why are we building light rail everywhere when regional or heavy rail would be a better fit? It’s tough to be optimistic.