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[–] Hellsfire29@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

If you make public transportation safe and efficient, even reliable, people won't need cars.

I'd rather sit on a train or a bus and read, rather than drive on the same roads with the crazy liberals and conservatives.

Oh wait, I'd be stuck inside metal tube with them instead. I better stay home then. Damn.

[–] tommygenepool@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Can we get free chocolate bars with the tickets too.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works -2 points 5 months ago (7 children)

That's great. If you are in the US it isn't going to happen at a meaningful scale. Best we can do is larger scale self driving mini busses for public transport and single user self driving vehicles for expediancies. Use existing infrastructure but work to eliminate human driving (save that for track driving for pleasure) and enforce heavy pedestrian priorities so foot traffic and bicycling becomes easier and safer.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago

It might happen. Manhattan just introduced congestion charges and it apparently made a big difference.

And places that we now think of as bike and public transit focused cities in Europe were very car-centric in the 70s. I don't know why or how they changed, but they did.

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world -4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You don't want self driving cars because you like trains.

I don't want self driving cars because I like driving.

We are not the same.

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