Fuckcars
No
https://feddit.nl/post/33741803
Please tell me how cars are an effective method of mass transportation.
No thanks
In America, cars are the only effective method of transportation for 98% of the population. Is that ideal? No. Is that reality? Yes.
I’m all for advocating for mass transportation but right now, and for 50 years minimum (best case scenario, completely made up) cars will continue to be necessary for the majority of Americans.
Mass transit makes sense in cities, even between surrounding towns. But as soon as you get more rural public transit is so out of scope. It’s always easy to see the people who spent their whole life in urbanized areas by how unrealistic they talk about this subject.
Pick 5 random suburban Americans, not even urban, and have someone design a public transit system and schedule that won’t add 2 hours to their daily commute.
Like yeah, we absolutely need more mass transit, high speed rail, etc., but those are a few of MANY MANY steps to reduce the number of cars in America.
The thing is, how much do we collectively spend on cars, infrastructure, and roads only for most cars to sit doing nothing 90% of the time? I don’t have specific numbers but it seems to me like if all of that money was spent on public transit then it would still be cheaper to have a tram coming by every five to ten minutes even in suburban areas with low passenger volume.
I don’t think it’s ever going to happen though given the lack of public desire and vested interests at play though.
As the above comment mentioned, time is also a factor. My old beater that I bought for $800 that costs about $350 a year to keep on the road keeps my commute time a lot lower than it would be otherwise. I have a friend in a country with better public infrastructure than mine. His commute time by car is 3 times shorter than it is by bus, and he lives in a significantly denser area than I do.
Please tell me how mass transit is effective outside of urban areas. Are you proposing a bus service to every backwoods holler? Are farmers supposed to schlep their supplies, equipment, and products around on a bus?
The tail pipe would have to be hot to fuck em, after all you first have to turn them on. If not it’s just Rapecars.
