To fix L.A.'s traffic, we need tolls

Re:To fix L.A.'s traffic, we need tolls by donatj on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @03:23PM (#13814416)

I'm certainly not writing mass transit off but I've simply never seen it work in practice. I know that my 7 minute commute is well over an hour by bus.

I'd rather just pay the aforementioned tolls than waste 2 hours of my day on a bus, every day. That would add up to years of my life wasted pretty quickly.

I'm far more hopeful for self driving cars than mass transit.

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Re:To fix L.A.'s traffic, we need tolls by vkou on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @03:41PM (#13814630)

Self-driving cars are, unfortunately, an expensive half-assed solution to transportation in the US.

Buses (And really, any at-grade transportation that has to share the road with cars) are, unfortunately, not mass transit. 7 minutes vs an hour sounds atrocious.

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Re:To fix L.A.'s traffic, we need tolls by whorleater on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @03:24PM (#13814425)

NYC is an abnormality in the US, but it's certainly better than almost all the rest of the cities in the states. Western Europe also has fantastic mass transit that definitely works in practice.

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Re:To fix L.A.'s traffic, we need tolls by sampo on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @05:02PM (#13815454)

> I'm certainly not writing mass transit off but I've simply never seen it work in practice.

You've never been to New York, London, Tokyo? Or any 0.5m+ city in Europe or Japan?

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Re:To fix L.A.'s traffic, we need tolls by r00fus on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @05:44PM (#13815857)

Every time I see this SMAC video [1], I think of Hong Kong.

[1] https://paeantosmac.wordpress.com/2015/08/31/secret-project-...

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