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I guess by 'well designed cities' you mean 'cities with copious amounts of parking' For certain high frequency routes in Chicago, I never minded sitting on the
by jazzyjackson 2y ago
I guess by 'well designed cities' you mean 'cities with copious amounts of parking'
For certain high frequency routes in Chicago, I never minded sitting on the bus to get across town. At least once I got off I didn't have to find a parking spot. Now wasting life waiting for a bus is another story.
- cyberax 2y ago> I guess by 'well designed cities' you mean 'cities with copious amounts of parking' Yup. Wide roads, plenty of parking, distributed industry and office space, low density.
- saagarjha 2y ago"Low density" just means that the entire area is covered in asphalt. That's not what well designed looks like.
- cyberax 2y agoYes, and? > That's not what well designed looks like. It is more flexible, people-friendly, enables better living. So yeah, "well designed".
- saagarjha 2y agoUnless you’re one of those people who can’t drive?
- cyberax 2y agoThat indeed is the biggest problem. Waymo is already solving it in SF, though.
- saagarjha 2y agoPeople can't afford to spend $20 every time they want to go anywhere.
- cyberax 2y agoThe thing is, a transit trip's true cost is also around $20 in SF and Seattle. It's just that perverse incentives hide it from users. Waymo taxis deserve the same level of subsidies. It won't be happening any time soon because it'll be a death knell for transit, and will leave thousands of city employees without work.
- saagarjha 2y agoThis isn’t true, unless you’re willing to consider the subsidies that cars get when it comes to putting in and maintaining roads and doing urban planning around half the city being car surfaces.