Public transit isn’t feasible is many rural areas. I know you don’t like it, but that’s reality. Sending a bus 20 miles down a road in the hopes that one of 4 people on it want to ride on the bus just doesn’t make sense.
Sending a bus 20 miles down a road in the hopes that one of 4 people on it want to ride on the bus just doesn’t make sense.
Super true. I am disappointed bus systems have not started an on-demand system. Uber/Lyft showed what an app could do for transportation. Add physical call buttons at stops, or something, for those without mobile phones.
I would ride the bus more if it went where I need to go.
What kind of public transit that exists in reality can cover that situation? The answer is none. We can wish and hope for all kinds of things, but for the moment, reality exists.
• High speed rail between major metros.
• Trams / light rail from major metros to nearby suburbia / rural towns.
• Suburbia / rural towns also implement those same trams / light rail.
•• Walkable cities / towns, with emphasis on bus / bike / light rail transit, slowing traffic.
•• High density living with mixed zoning to minimize sprawl.
•• Use of large tracts of land as parks and other third spaces.
I’m sure there’s more, but that’s off the top of my head.
Edit: oh, and instead of following up with “tHis WoN’t wORk”, please offer solutions. That generally goes over better than just complaining.
You are the one complaining and not offering solutions. Your proposed solutions above don’t solve the rural issue (unless your solution is forced relocation of everyone to cities, which is never going to happen) which has to be solved before you can make cars so expensive that only the rich can afford them. I also don’t know why you would want to reserve cars for the ultra wealthy, hardly feels like being ultra wealthy needs more perks.
That wouldn’t work in the vast majority of the US, which is very spread out.
It would certainly work for the places where the vast majority of people live, ie. Metros
Great, but punishing everyone who doesn’t live in a metro by taxing personal vehicles out of existence would be assinine.
As far as I read it, they are arguing to reduce fossil fuel vehicles, not vehicles entirely.
The quote was “tax the fuck out of personal vehicles”. It doesn’t say non-electric personal vehicles.
Original commenter here:
We need the vast majority of personal vehicles to be phased out, please.
Obviously, electric vehicles are a stop-gap, but they’re also part of the problem.
Land doesn’t ride in cars, people do.
Public transit isn’t feasible is many rural areas. I know you don’t like it, but that’s reality. Sending a bus 20 miles down a road in the hopes that one of 4 people on it want to ride on the bus just doesn’t make sense.
Super true. I am disappointed bus systems have not started an on-demand system. Uber/Lyft showed what an app could do for transportation. Add physical call buttons at stops, or something, for those without mobile phones.
I would ride the bus more if it went where I need to go.
So because it doesn’t currently exist, it can’t ever?
What kind of public transit that exists in reality can cover that situation? The answer is none. We can wish and hope for all kinds of things, but for the moment, reality exists.
Because you have no vision, it can’t happen.
Got it.
It sounds like you also have no vision, since you can’t come up with any solution to that situation.
Okay. How about:
• High speed rail between major metros.
• Trams / light rail from major metros to nearby suburbia / rural towns.
• Suburbia / rural towns also implement those same trams / light rail.
•• Walkable cities / towns, with emphasis on bus / bike / light rail transit, slowing traffic.
•• High density living with mixed zoning to minimize sprawl.
•• Use of large tracts of land as parks and other third spaces.
I’m sure there’s more, but that’s off the top of my head.
Edit: oh, and instead of following up with “tHis WoN’t wORk”, please offer solutions. That generally goes over better than just complaining.
You are the one complaining and not offering solutions. Your proposed solutions above don’t solve the rural issue (unless your solution is forced relocation of everyone to cities, which is never going to happen) which has to be solved before you can make cars so expensive that only the rich can afford them. I also don’t know why you would want to reserve cars for the ultra wealthy, hardly feels like being ultra wealthy needs more perks.