NoToP

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   by NoToP 4y ago

   The interstate system was a massive subsidy to cars and car dependant lifestyles. To compare it to tech disruption like what happened to ferries makes the death of interstate passenger rail seem natural. In reality, no industry could surviv
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   by NoToP 4y ago

   This comment is written from the perspective of cars and transit as they exist today in much of America, and the connotations associated with them. There are places you could be living where public transit is more convenient than a car. You
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   by NoToP 4y ago

   This is a plausible hypothesis, but the thing that's missing is how many times can rail be traversed before being unusable and how many times can a road be traversed by the same measure. Intuitively, I would imagine the net tonnage pas
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   by NoToP 4y ago

   Hold up. Why would people who weren't willing to accept the taxes to maintain the street car willing to instead pay all the tax which subsidizes car infrastructure. This narrative doesn't quite add up because everything you said a
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   by NoToP 4y ago

   Google maps has been becoming worse over time. It used to show metro lines by default. Now, you have to turn that on as a layer. It used to show all the stations on those lines. Now, depending on zoom, it algorithmically decides that some a