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> it’s great that you want to start building some mass transit, but it’ll take a century if we start now. I don't buy this. Specially in cities. You have roads
by newswasboring 3y ago
> it’s great that you want to start building some mass transit, but it’ll take a century if we start now.
I don't buy this. Specially in cities. You have roads, buy some buses and hire and train good bus drivers. Put some poles as bus stops. Lots of countries have done it in less than a decade.
- kredd 3y agoThe problem is, unless the government forcefully does it, the people sue the hell out of the city. “Bus lane lawsuits nyc” google search will result in bunch of results. Also doesn’t help how it would be a political suicide for anyone to be pro-mass transit during local elections. Sometimes they even oppose bus routes to go through their neighbourhoods as well, becoming some sort of an inverted “tragedy of commons” issue.