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> So it’s silly to suggest public transit can replace cars Ew. This is so flawed. What is china’s car ownership per capita? Trips taken per day? https://en.w
by dangus 3y ago
> So it’s silly to suggest public transit can replace cars
Ew. This is so flawed.
What is china’s car ownership per capita? Trips taken per day?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_per_capita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_...
China has 2 cars for every 10 people (#99 in the world), while the United States has 9 cars for every 10 people.
While China buys a lot of cars (duh, they have a population of over a billion), they would buy even more if they had the dismal public transit of the US.
Of course public transit replaces cars.
Another fun fact: you would need 15 lanes of highway to handle the same amount of passenger load as a two-track subway tunnel. Manhattan as we know it would be physically impossible to exist if public transit “couldn’t replace cars.”
- xnx 3y ago> you would need 15 lanes of highway to handle the same amount of passenger load as a two-track subway tunnel. Certainly true for some cases. For the trains I'm familiar with, the parallel road carries many times more passengers in a single lane over the course of an hour.
- lmm 3y ago> For the trains I'm familiar with, the parallel road carries many times more passengers in a single lane over the course of an hour. Which train and road would that be? That's either a severely underused rail line (if the road is busy enough to be congested - and if not, it doesn't matter), or one that prioritises freight.
- janalsncm 3y agoSorry I should have been more clear. Of course public transit replaces some cars. By definition this is true. The point is, cars are still around no matter how good your public transit system is, so we might as well try to make them safer.