• Shake747@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Right, the road won’t be so congested, but you have to run on a specific schedule and only go to specific places.

    You have to pay for all of this somehow too, be it through fares at a toll or taxed by your gov. It won’t be any cheaper running transit. Maybe even more expensive, because they still have to maintain the roads, but now the cost of vehicle repair is on the gov/Corp and not the individual. More tolls or more taxes.

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      1 year ago

      a functioning public transit system covers the whole city, nearly point to point, and it runs on a regular schedule with buses and trains arriving every few minutes.

      but who’s going to pay for it???

      it’s really a good thing no one has ever run the numbers on this and there’s absolutely no literature analyzing the costs of various forms of public infrastructure to determine which is the most cost effective. there’s no way at all anyone has ever done that.

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      run on a specific schedule and only go to specific places.

      That describes 90% of all car trips too anyway. From your home to your job at 8am, to your job to your house at 5pm.

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        1 year ago

        I go camping to random remote locations throughout the summer, sometimes you have to drive to find spots because they aren’t really advertised online.

        What about construction people? Do they need to rent a truck every time they have to drive to a job?

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          1 year ago

          Do you care about people who can’t drive? What’s your solution for them?