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Por que no los dos?
No one is going to build a train stop near Ione, NV, one of the places I went to on a road trip.
I don't understand why it has to be a zero sum game.
edit: seems like the fuckcars cult has infested Lemmy. lmfao that sucks. It's cool though, because not even you cultists can bring me down. Oh and just to clarify: I definitely agree with where you guys are coming from, but you take it to an xtreme that I can't get on board with.
Sure, we can absolutely have both, we should just be preferring mass transit to personal transit for populated areas.
In my area, we have:
We've been having more traffic recently, so what's the state-wide transportation system's decision? Delay expansion of rail and expand the highway.
What we should instead be doing is:
Transit will never fully replace personal vehicles, but it can drastically reduce the need for driving within urban and suburban areas. Rail lines are a lot cheaper to maintain than roads, and trains can carry a lot more people than cars. In other words, if we can get people to use trains more than cars, we can reduce our spending on transportation infrastructure.
We should absolutely keep and improve our existing highway infrastructure, but we should also be phasing out a lot of our road infrastructure in densely populated areas in favor of mass transit options that move people more efficiently.
No, nothing has "infested" Lemmy. It's just that many people understand, that rails are much more efficient than roads and that individual traffic on large scale has no future. At least if you want our future to be survivable.
I agree with you! Fuckcars takes it to such an extreme I find it very very difficult to side with them. Cars have their uses