mondoman712
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- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 4 days ago:
Again, it doesn’t have to be more difficult, if most people don’t own a car there will be a lot more demand for public transport, and the services can be expanded to accommodate this much more easily. I can go hiking and usually not worry about getting home because the trains are hourly at the worst and connections are easy. It’s only more difficult because we’ve built a world around making things as convenient as possible for cars.
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 4 days ago:
Flat terrain makes it much easier to build fast rail. If there’s another city on the way you could have a high speed rail connection, or a sleeper train.
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 4 days ago:
I live in Switzerland, and I go hiking almost every weekend without using a car. There’s plenty of places to do so accessable by public transport, and still the vast majority of journeys here are done by car. If even a quarter of those car journeys were instead taken by public transport, that would mean a doubling of public transport usage and justify huge expansions.
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 4 days ago:
If you’re at the point of worrying about how much wear on the roads your buses are doing, it’s time to lay down some rails.
Where do you live that actually taxes fuel enough to cover the entire cost of the externalities of cars? A study shows it doesn’t in Massachusets, and this shows it doesn’t in Europe
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 4 days ago:
Lots of people in this thread seem to be missing this. With no cars it makes sense to build a lot more public transport, cycling is suddenly nice and safe, and car oriented places don’t make any sense to build anymore.
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 4 days ago:
That’s true now because 1. Most people in these areas drive and 2. Roads and driving are heavily subsidised. You’re not going to have the same service in small towns as in big cities, but you could certainly provide something useful.
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 5 days ago:
If people use public transport instead of driving, there would need to be many many more services and it suddenly becomes a lot more convenient, even outside cities.
- Comment on ‘We’ve seen it decimate areas’: Somerset town’s traders oppose parking charges 2 months ago:
It’s not rural, it’s a town of 21,000 with many other towns nearby. There’s already buses which could easily be made more frequent and to cover more routes.
- Comment on ‘We’ve seen it decimate areas’: Somerset town’s traders oppose parking charges 2 months ago:
Free parking is a huge subsidy given to those who need it least and only serves to exacerbate urban sprawl. Drivers should be paying for the space they take up along with all of the other impacts they have on the urban environment, and the money should be used to provide viable alternatives to driving.
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- Comment on England Trials Smartphone Rail Payment System with Real-Time Phone Location Tracking 5 months ago:
I use this all the time, it’s great.
- Comment on Get in the pod, inhale the fumes. 7 months ago:
Cars still suck even without the dependence. I live somewhere that very much isn’t car dependant but there’s still too many of them and they still make places miserable.
- Comment on Get in the pod, inhale the fumes. 7 months ago:
Your hobby is fine as long as you don’t impose the externalities on other people. I don’t want to hear your loud engine, I don’t want to breathe your fumes, and I don’t want to worry about getting hit while just walking around.
- Comment on Infrastructure construction in Britain is defective. The most budget UK tramway is more expensive than the most costly french tramway 11 months ago:
There isn’t long running strategic planning for this type of thing and no consistency in the volume of work, so the construction industry can’t invest in having the capacity. That and risk contingencies are way higher.
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Cool thank you
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- Comment on If political agendas were released, or summarized, like patch notes would people better understand what they are signup for? for? 1 year ago:
We have that in the UK, the parties all publish manifestos before elections. I think it helps to get the message across and to be clear about what they are and aren’t promising to do. They aren’t, however, legally enforceable so parties aren’t obliged to actually follow up on their promises.