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This comment is written from the perspective of cars and transit as they exist today in much of America, and the connotations associated with them. There are places you could be living where public transit is more convenient than a car. You don't have to plan your trips because the train is frequent enough that you just show up whenever you want. And you aren't limited to just one place because there's a network of t…
I’m not writing from an American perspective. I love Tokyo and go there a couple of times a year for business. Half the people in Tokyo have a car, and outside Tokyo nearly everyone has a car. Nobody takes the Tokyo Metro or Toei subway to haul junk. Your comparison is invalid: building minimal road infrastructure is vastly cheaper than building rail. You need economies of scale to justify the expense of rail constru…
Re: The Bay Area's lost streetcars
#91Hauling junk really isn’t in the purview of a transit system to be fair to parent