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How making rules crippling public transport? Obviously not everything is great in the west or here where I live but I prefer it to gutter oil or play doah buld
by npodbielski 1y ago
How making rules crippling public transport?
Obviously not everything is great in the west or here where I live but I prefer it to gutter oil or play doah buldings. China is far from perfect as well.
- HPsquared 1y agoThere are pros and cons to each system, of course. But I'd expect the looser system to produce more innovation.
- npodbielski 1y agoIn expense of peoples lives and well being. You can also say that Doctor Mengele helped to advance modern medicine and you would be right. Still this would be really inhumane view of the world.
- bluGill 1y agoTransit doesn't need innovation. we have been doing it for a long time. Iterate on what is know to work. Small change is generally best.
- HPsquared 1y agoTransit needs major innovation and overhaul if it's to gain any significant market share. For instance in the UK (in 2022), a whopping 6% of commuting trips were by bus and 9% were by rail. Even less for leisure: 3% of leisure trips are by bus, 3% by rail. That's terrible market share! Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/transport-statistics-great-britain-2022/transport-statistics-great-britain-2022-domestic-travel https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/transport-statistic...
- bluGill 1y agoInnovation is not needed. Overhaul is perhaps needed, but all the innovations needed to get high market share are already known in the world. Most of what is lacking is the money needed to run that service. That is not an innovation.