• circuitfarmer
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        71 year ago

        Yeah. I probably should have been more detailed in my comment, but I did not mean embrace it as it is. I mean investing in it and making it competitive. I don’t think it’s embraceable in its current form.

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      we need to push representatives into office that are far more left-leaning and not fucking autocrats who will MANDATE massive increases in taxes on billionaires and legislate much more significant subsidization of public transit

      You’re framing it wrong. We don’t need to elect scary commies to massively increase taxes in order to subsidize icky collective things; we simply need to elect Fiscal Conservatives™ who will cease massively subsidizing car dependency. In particular, it’s time to repeal Big Government® intrusive regulations that try to tell Red Blooded Americans© they can’t build a multifamily building on their own damn property or that dictate minimum parking requirements.

      This is America, damn it! It’s high time we put the invisible hand of the Free Market back in control!

      [insert screaming eagle noises]

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      Countries like Japan, Europe and Nordic countries… My man, Nordic countries are Europe and Europe isn’t a country.

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      -11 year ago

      It’s more complex than that.

      The way the US is spread out makes public transit prohibitively expensive and difficult to achieve proper coverage. To make it effective, you would have to shift the entire way we live. Our entire society is built off the concept that everyone has a car.

      Add to the fact that building transit is extra expensive in the US and you arrive at the reality that we will NEVER have a working transit system. That’s why the shift to small cars is needed. We don’t have any more room for roads, so we need more cars to fit in the roads we have

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          We just lack the leadership needed to implement massive programs like high speed interstate rail.

          In fairness the Interstate system was more about air defense than transit.

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              01 year ago

              Politically you have to get several different groups of people to buy in to make it work. Unfortunately “what it’s about” is the deciding factor in accomplishment.