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um doesn’t this already exist in Europe and Japan?
Things exist only theoretically if they’re outside the only real country, the US.
Yes.
Barcelona resident here. I pay 22€ for an unlimited month transit pass (that’s a discounted price that will probably go up). I can ride any underground, bus or commuter train inside the metropolitan area. I own a car to go outside the urban zone but I barely use it.
When I have to use my car in town (because I’m going to buy something that cannot be carried easily otherwise) I recall how much driving in the city sucks.
I’m actually thinking about sellling my car and using a rental service if I want to take a road trip.
Idk what the other dude is talking about. It definitely exists some places.
Source: live in Copenhagen, don’t own a car.
No. Not really.
Cars are very common and walkable cities have been largely accommodated for the car.
Live in Stockholm, don’t have a car, can get around fine. Still want a car, but not for the city.
I went a year without driving in America ; its aweful
Yeah, I don’t know how anyone survives there without one.
that makes sense bc I did die
RIP in peace 🪦
I came back
55% of trips in Sweden are cars. I’d call that the default.
Sweden is a huge country, I drove 6 hours down to Malmö recently, and lots of people live on the outskirts where train and bus services are slower and more spotty. But if you live in the cities here, you don’t need a car.
Ok, it’s great to dream. In your dream are cars just completely gone? If so that’s a pretty extreme stretch of a dream. If you are going to have any cars why wouldn’t you want them to be self driving?
Sorry, best we can do in the U.S. is fuck all.
Don’t say “cars as default”, say “built around people, not cars”
You’re not thinking car-first. You need neuralink to fix that. /s
Ah yes, another US-centric post.
Russian train
That’s a Velaro
In Russian livery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapsan
The Russian version of it though
This post isn’t shit. Where is my refund?
I’ll do you one better: I DON’T MIND CHECKING A GOD DAMN SCHEDULE. HELL, LET’S GET WILD AND MAKE THAT MFER PAPER I LITERALLY DGAF. Cuz I got that dawg in me!
I want people to keep some communities light hearted
Yeah i dont know if this fits shitpost
my dads idea: Ban cars inside cities have giant parking houses around the cities public transport - free - that comes by every 5-10 minutes
I live in the Seattle area and while this stuff isn’t free it’s under $10 to park and ride both ways. Trains run every 7 minutes and the train will take you maybe five minutes extra if there’s no traffic. If you’re coming or going from the stadiums it’s faster and cheaper than driving to one of the lots close to them. Trains are pretty clean too, it’s a pretty great rail line
Freiburg
We haven’t banned cars, but my city did put a park-and-ride lot at each end of its one BRT line. It’s pretty great, now the haters get to complain that BRT is a failure because nobody rides it, AND that it’s useless because those lots are always full.
“Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded” - Yogi Bera
This one is actually a pretty good idea. Eventually we get rid of the parking garages too and cover everything with railways.
Look up Pontevedra in spain.
5-10 minutes is forever in some places
5 minutes and small delays would mean that some busses are a few seconds apart
I want a teleportation device that either gets me to my destination instantly or deletes me from existence.
A catapult on every rooftop!
So, London basically?
I think self driving cars will help tbh. Only way it will happen.
Less parking. Solves last mile problem.
How will that help? By some studies, about 30% of traffic on downtown city streets is drivers circulating looking for street parking. With self-driving cars, they could cause congestion by circulating all day instead of parking.
If you get the train downtown then you are already downtown. You don’t need a self driving car at all. You need a way to get from your house to the train station by self driving car.
Or you have a lot more demand responsive transport. Everyone gets on a mini bus in the suburbs and you all get dropped off at the stores or locations you want one by one.
I’ve seen stuff about sharing them so there’s less cars parked and people just get dropped off and it takes the next person. But taxis already exist and haven’t solved the problem so I don’t think self driving cars are the answer there.
From the passenger’s perspective, a taxi and a self-driving car are functionally identical. But back when Uber, Lyft, and the rest were offering cheap rides subsidized by VC money, all that happened was that they made traffic congestion slightly, but measurably, worse. People didn’t give up private cars in large numbers, though.
If we get self-driving cars, then people’s private cars can add to the problem by cruising around empty most of the time, and if they’re not in them, there’s nobody to be bothered by traffic delays. The only way to achieve the dream of eliminating gridlock would be to ban private cars. And if that were politically feasible, why not just do it now with transit?
Saw this yesterday, instead of Atlanta building a new airport that could take away Delta’s dominance, the CEO suggests vertibirds for shuttling people to the airport. This totally ignores the fact that the public transit MARTA goes directly to the airport
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