K9Evangelist
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I learned to drive on a manual. I prefer them. Every vehicle (four total) I've owned since 1984 has had a manual transmission. I won't buy anything else.
Not every place has a good transportation system. The UK does. In most of western hemisphere, you don't have any choice except to drive because there are no buses.Neither. I stick to buses. UK has a good transport system.
Why risk car accidents? Do you people know how common they are?
more than 1.35 million lives each year and cause up to 50 million injuries.
Yea. You people better be mindful on the roads.
The U.S kind of fucked itself with its road system. Not enough lanes for busses basically. In order to make buses work in the U.S it requires either more lanes (and thus taking up more space) or phasing out cars for buses.Not every place has a good transportation system. The UK does. In most of western hemisphere, you don't have any choice except to drive because there are no buses.
Population density. Most of the US doesn't have high enough population density to support your suggestions.
Your suggestions makes sense in major cities and along the Atlantic Seaboard. They don't make sense in states like Wyoming, Idaho, any state west of the Mississippi River other than the major metropolitan areas.
Two examples: I live in a state that is 20% larger in land area than the UK with 10% of the population. California, our most populous state, has 58% the population of the UK and is 74% larger in land area.
It's often difficult for Europeans to grasp the distances in the US. We drive from state to state the way Europeans drive from one country to another.
We do have public transportation where population density supports it. Everywhere else an automobile isn't a luxury, it's a necessity.
YeapThe U.S kind of fucked itself with its road system.
More lanes? The problem is their car-centered road design. 4 lanes in a residential area is fucking nuts! More lanes isn't going to promote the use of alternate modes of transportation.Not enough lanes for busses basically. In order to make buses work in the U.S it requires either more lanes (and thus taking up more space) or phasing out cars for buses.
Tram & train infrastructure isn't cheap, and th eUS just doesn't have enough population, nor infrastructure density to make that affordable.There's no ideal outcome once you already built the roads. But there's also trams. Trains. There are options.
Are you gonna pay for that?If you don't have the options then create them. Make them somehow. Sky trams is an idea. Why don't we have sky trams again? Are tracks just harder to mantain if in the air or something? Probably something to do with weight when it comes to long term use of trams or something.
Will it make money?Are you gonna pay for that?
Almost certainly not, even with government subsidies piled on top of government subsidies. The "customer base" just doesn't exist to even get it to "break-even" in probably 90% of the contiugous United States. Basically, anyplace other than the biggest of "big cities" has zero chance of turning a profit, and even there, I expect that it'll be a damned close thing.Will it make money?
No, that's the problem.Will it make money?
That's just it. How can you get more populated without more efficient transport?No, that's the problem.
The US isn't anywhere closely densely populated enough.
Increase in population density isn't a goal you should strive for...That's just it. How can you get more populated without more efficient transport?
Here's the real problem though. Food. Would we have enough food? Considering that farmers are in strike in high numbers...
Solve one problem and you get another.
It's more of a result. Look at China. They try to expand for a reason.Increase in population density isn't a goal you should strive for...
easier transportation which leads to higher population could do more harm then good
But it does make it happen faster over time. The simple fact of the matter is that more people settling in locations (due to faster transport) would lead to more space for more babies. Easier travel means faster growth. Which in turn means more food.Easier transportation doesn't suddenly make people poop out exponentially more babies.