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by so33 9y ago
In Canada, the CRTC requires the big internet providers to resell their broadband to smaller ISPs. Even then it took a decade for big ISPs like Rogers to give up on onerous bandwidth caps (which would be about 100GB a month, and, usually, w
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by so33 9y ago
In Ontario, there are three major internet providers: Rogers, Bell, and Telus. For the longest time, their plans (all of them) had bandwidth caps, something that would be unheard of in the United States. They used to be extremely ungenerous
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by so33 9y ago
>You wouldn't need a net neutrality law if you had competition I don’t buy this argument because you not only need competition, you need a market with perfect information. Net neutrality buzzes on in the sidelines. I would wager tha
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by so33 9y ago
Customers are “held hostage” because often there is only one choice of ISP. They may not offer throttling. How can you sue your ISP if there is a clause that you must go through binding arbitration instead? How can you switch to another int
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by so33 9y ago
> They weren’t even trying to hide it, the middle screen was basically a giant middle finger to the rest of the car-building world; a not-so-subtle “F-you” to the naysayers, the disbelievers, and the other car companies who insisted on p
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by so33 9y ago
Driverless trains have been around for a while. The world's longest fully-automated driverless metro system, moving close to 500,000 people every day, exists in none other than Vancouver, Canada: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by so33 9y ago
Bus rapid transit, of the sort you find in South America, has a lot of benefits of light rail without the initial startup cost of putting in rails for the reasons you describe: Dedicated rights of way, signal priority, and a lack of speed-k
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by so33 9y ago
No, not just parking. For every passenger that takes a train, that’s one passenger not sitting in a car that takes much much more space. An average subway train can fit around 800 people seated, and takes up much less space than 800 cars. I
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by so33 9y ago
There are a few cities in the world where public transportation is privately owned and operated. Those cities have so much density, most routes can turn a profit. Most cities do not have this luxury. Cities in Europe, for the most part, do
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by so33 9y ago
Buses are indeed subsidized. But which routes? I bet that the most popular bus routes, the ones that are always packed to the gills, make money. What buses are subsidizing are the unpopular bus routes, the ones whose goal is to increase mob
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by so33 9y ago
>each other, the maximum is 33,000 cars per hour. Yeah, but that's 33,000 cars per hour without any of the cars stopping to exit the tunnels. The trains used in BART and other public transit systems can very easily exceed 60+mph alr
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by so33 9y ago
>For what its worth, it hints that those sleds will also become public transit platforms as well So this is something I've been trying to address all thread, so excuse me picking your comment. You can only create a public transit pl
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by so33 9y ago
>One problem is that trains only move an insane amount of people that are all going the same way. Another problem is that all those people have to walk to and from the end station. A "packet switched" system of sending individu
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by so33 9y ago
Freight would be a great case for tunnels, if you could find a way to make the freight companies (say, Amazon) pay to use it. There's a reason why Amazon is pushing drone delivery, and I bet it's because they think they can get th
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by so33 9y ago
>Public transit has failed to solve the problem despite a 100-year head start. I take objection to this because, aside from other cities where public transit is the norm, the interurban system in LA [0] was dismantled, partially because
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by so33 9y ago
I can only speak from experience for Hong Kong's MTR system. It has over 100% farebox recovery as well. Fares are distance-based [0] so it's hard to tell, but the average seems to be US$1.20 or so per person (unless you are travel
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by so33 9y ago
As others have mentioned, it actually is quite common. Part of the reason is that the going rate for hiring any sort of unskilled labor is much lower in Southeast Asia and South Asia, compared to North America. (Another way to say this is t
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by so33 9y ago
But there is still a last mile problem, you have to enter and exit out of the tunnels. That's the last mile. Or do you suggest that tunnel building will become so viable from an economic and engineering standpoint that everyone will ha
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by so33 9y ago
>Even if the car's were relatively crammed close together in the tunnel, I can't imagine it would be anywhere near the density you could fit on subway trains. Indeed. The problem always fundamentally reduces to geometry, and th
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by so33 9y ago
But it has already been proven to work, in Tokyo and Hong Kong and Shanghai and London and Paris and countless other cities, countless other times.
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by so33 9y ago
We already tried fast roads that avoid traffic in America in the form of elevated expressways that criss-cross the city core. They are an absolute eyesore and end up creating more traffic themselves due to induced demand. I think the real s
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by so33 9y ago
>Once cars are fully autonomous and become cheaper, faster, and more efficient than current forms of public transportation You state this as if it is inevitable, but I don't see this as true. Take, for example, the density in cities
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by so33 9y ago
>What if people refuse to use the train because it's scary, dirty, stinky, etc.? What if you could re-imagine trains where everyone can bring their own private mini-car and add it to the train? Then the car can be private, clean, lu
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by so33 9y ago
With all due respect, there already is a flexible platform where people can send whatever they want; it's called a road. The problem is that single-occupancy vehicles take up lots of road space and degrade bus service. Today, when buse