โฒ 1128 โผ Public Transit my beloved ๐ (lemmy.ml) submitted 2 years ago by lelgenio@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml 308 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[โ] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago (2 children) Engineers designed these roads, not urbanist. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [โ] CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago (1 child) Traffic engineering isn't a university program and we're still using studies from the 50's to dictate our traffic engineering. It's civil engineers in NA who are forced to follow outdated policy which maximizes for car traffic flow, regardless of body count or overall flow of poeple across all transit options. Generally, city planners are all for public transit and walkable and bike able cities but have to battle with politicians appealing to suburbanites with cars. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [โ] InputZero@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago I don't understand why this is such a hard thing for people and government to understand. Your car isn't going to a place, you and the stuff you need to carry are. The car is just the means and there are many other means to do so, they just get a lot less attention and funding. Cars and traffic infrastructure have been subsidised for over a century now. Of course cars more developed, and of course we build our cities for cars, we're socializing cars. Yes, there are many areas that have been developed so car focused that it's a necessity to own a car. People living in rural areas will always need personal cars. People in urban and suburban areas probably don't and should give up their personal vehicles so Farmer can keep theirs. permalink fedilink source parent [โ] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago Traffic engineers are hilariously bad at their jobs in the U.S. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago (1 child) Traffic engineering isn't a university program and we're still using studies from the 50's to dictate our traffic engineering. It's civil engineers in NA who are forced to follow outdated policy which maximizes for car traffic flow, regardless of body count or overall flow of poeple across all transit options. Generally, city planners are all for public transit and walkable and bike able cities but have to battle with politicians appealing to suburbanites with cars. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [โ] InputZero@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago I don't understand why this is such a hard thing for people and government to understand. Your car isn't going to a place, you and the stuff you need to carry are. The car is just the means and there are many other means to do so, they just get a lot less attention and funding. Cars and traffic infrastructure have been subsidised for over a century now. Of course cars more developed, and of course we build our cities for cars, we're socializing cars. Yes, there are many areas that have been developed so car focused that it's a necessity to own a car. People living in rural areas will always need personal cars. People in urban and suburban areas probably don't and should give up their personal vehicles so Farmer can keep theirs. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] InputZero@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago I don't understand why this is such a hard thing for people and government to understand. Your car isn't going to a place, you and the stuff you need to carry are. The car is just the means and there are many other means to do so, they just get a lot less attention and funding. Cars and traffic infrastructure have been subsidised for over a century now. Of course cars more developed, and of course we build our cities for cars, we're socializing cars. Yes, there are many areas that have been developed so car focused that it's a necessity to own a car. People living in rural areas will always need personal cars. People in urban and suburban areas probably don't and should give up their personal vehicles so Farmer can keep theirs. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago Traffic engineers are hilariously bad at their jobs in the U.S. permalink fedilink source parent