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• FluffyPotato@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Roads and parking mostly

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  • joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Roads don’t really go away with public transit, they might need less maintenance overall, but they still need to exist in some form, and roads lasting 10% longer doesn’t seem like a huge savings

    Parking is mostly privately owned, so saving money on parking doesn’t really make more money available to invest in public transit.

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    • FluffyPotato@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Tram tracks last forever and don’t need roads. Also cars and trucks are responsible for like 90% of road damage, for example pedestrian roads last decades with zero maintenance. If cars and trucks got Thanos snapped the budget for road maintenance would be miniscule.

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      • joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I guess if you don’t include buses in public transit. And pretend that all people live within a 5km walk of existing public transit. You’re right.

        But otherwise you’re just oversimplifiying the situation and vastily underestimating how much it actually costs to build a full team network through rural areas.

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