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... or railways? Just got back from Tokyo and it didn't seem like anybody was demanding cars. North America seems to have a tremendous, gargantuan shortage of p

• adrianN 3y ago
  To be fair, traffic in Tokyo is still pretty bad. However the city would definitely collapse if it weren’t for public transport
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• defrost 3y ago
  North America has had 50 years of focused effort from Koch's Americans for Prosperity and other similarly themed lobby groups spreading the word that public transport bad, individual FreeDumb coal rolling good. You'd almost think they profit from that message somehow. Luckily for transit enthusiasts, the Kochs have not always been successful, even in sprawling cities with a sizable Republican base. Phoenix, Arizona[1], successfully expanded its light rail system in the face of opposition from the organization’s state branch. [1] https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2015/08/25/phoenix-elections-transit-results-prop104/32283455/ https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2015/08/2... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/26/koch-activists-phoenix-ban-light-rail https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/26/koch-activis... https://grist.org/article/the-koch-brothers-hate-public-transit-but-they-cant-always-stop-projects-in-their-tracks/ https://grist.org/article/the-koch-brothers-hate-public-tran... https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/uresposters/290/ https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/uresposters/290/