> This gives off "I have experience, so I must be right." vibes. There's no reason you can't be, but this goes against what most other urban planning experts an

> This gives off "I have experience, so I must be right." vibes. There's no reason you can't be, but this goes against what most other urban planning experts and studies have to say. You know, I'm not saying _anything_ that experts disagree with. And I talked at length with more than one expert, and I had taken a university course in urban planning and demographics. I'm just not considering the outcomes of urbanization to be positive. And I try to highlight things that urbanists tend to sweep under the rug. E.g. that bike lanes or rapid transit lines do not decrease congestion in most cases (see: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w18757/w18757.pdf https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w18757/w187... ). > I would like to see you prove it. Even if true, no one is actually going from a random point to another random point. Will write a blog post. I've plenty of notes and code for the experiments that I need to organize, instead of doing flame wars. Although sometimes I do hear new arguments. > EV buses have all the advantages of being an EV and none of the disadvantages of being private cars Buses are terrible for commutes. They are rolling lifetime destruction machines, with more than one lifetime wasted on commute, every day, for large cities. They are also terrible for roads (look up the "fourth power law"), and are way too expensive. Self-driving personal EVs and mini-buses will kill all the rest of transit. > Great point. It would have become LA. Or Houston (population 5 million) that still has a faster average commute than ANY large European city.