You completely misunderstood my point by only talking about cities and suburban sprawl, which isn’t what I was talking about at all. Rural areas exist. Rural areas will continue to exist because farming requires a lot of land. People still live in those areas and will continue to do so. It would genuinely be a waste of resources to service those areas with public transit. Single family EVs are a better alternative for those areas because the logistical challenges of public transit get more and more difficult the further you get from a city.
I get that you hate cars enough to write a book in response to a couple sentences, but you need to realize that not everyone lives in the city or even in suburban sprawl. Yes cities need to be re
Okay, look, we’re a looooong way from rural areas getting good public transit. We don’t even have good transit in and between large cities (not enormous metros like SF or LA, I’m talking about places like Fresno, with half a million people). It can be done, especially because many of the little tiny towns across the US sprang up as the result of (now defunct) rail stations. I think it’s a worthy goal to give all folks in small towns access to opportunities (jobs, commerce, entertainment) in the city, not just the ones who can drive. That said, the way the US does things, we’re practically 20 years out from that if we started today.
All that to say that public transit doesn’t really enter the conversation for me about rural areas except as something we ought to do, like we ought to build a lunar base or a Lagrange point station.
You completely misunderstood my point by only talking about cities and suburban sprawl, which isn’t what I was talking about at all. Rural areas exist. Rural areas will continue to exist because farming requires a lot of land. People still live in those areas and will continue to do so. It would genuinely be a waste of resources to service those areas with public transit. Single family EVs are a better alternative for those areas because the logistical challenges of public transit get more and more difficult the further you get from a city.
I get that you hate cars enough to write a book in response to a couple sentences, but you need to realize that not everyone lives in the city or even in suburban sprawl. Yes cities need to be re
Okay, look, we’re a looooong way from rural areas getting good public transit. We don’t even have good transit in and between large cities (not enormous metros like SF or LA, I’m talking about places like Fresno, with half a million people). It can be done, especially because many of the little tiny towns across the US sprang up as the result of (now defunct) rail stations. I think it’s a worthy goal to give all folks in small towns access to opportunities (jobs, commerce, entertainment) in the city, not just the ones who can drive. That said, the way the US does things, we’re practically 20 years out from that if we started today.
All that to say that public transit doesn’t really enter the conversation for me about rural areas except as something we ought to do, like we ought to build a lunar base or a Lagrange point station.