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Why isn’t transit ridership in the US isn’t higher? Partly because very few people are allowed to live near the best transit. This is the Capitol Heights metro station (thelemmy.club)
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Capitol Heights sits directly on the Washington D.C.–Maryland border and is surrounded by parking lots and empty land 🤦

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[–] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 child)

Contributing and being economical are wholefully different things.Make sure you have your point in order before yapping your gums. Words have meanings, make sure you use them properly if you’re trying to make an argument.

Of course libraries should be beneficial and run well, but that doesn’t make them profitable or economical. Most of those are actually tax sinks and extremely uneconomical. It’s why you didn’t mention the post in your reply but I did….

How can libraries and hospitals be economical if they don’t charge? Or are you suggesting these should be charged instead of free via taxpayer money?

Of things had to economical and run at max efficiency nothing would be built and all this infrastructure would cost money to use. You can’t seriously be trying to suggest this is the better option…?

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    I do not understand people who get this upset over an internet argument when they're so confidently wrong. Chill, dude.

    Libraries strengthen GDP and improve land values. They are a net benefit to society both economically and culturally. https://criticaldebateshsgj.scholasticahq.com/article/117035-how-public-libraries-drive-economic-vitality-in-surrounding-communities

    Hospitals contribute massively to regional economies. They are a net benefit to society both in terms of public health and economic impact. Similarly to libraries, they improve land values and GDP in addition to their less quantifiable impacts on peoples's lives. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44950667

    All of this is besides the point that transit systems should be accessible by foot. It is so fucking weird to pretend that its okay for a metro station to he completely encircled by massive roads for cars. This sort of car-brained infrastructure has led to decades of wasted public investment in cities like Denver and Los Angeles, where this exact sort of station characterizes sprawling train systems that almost nobody uses. People don't like actually using these kinds of train stations. That's not to say that park-ride stations can't ever work, Seattle actually does a great job of integrating them into neighborhoods while also promoting walkability and development around the station.

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