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Re:The Koch brothers are campaigning against tax rises for p... by mikeash on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @09:29AM (#17346360)
Car owners in any place which has bad traffic should be in favor of improved public transport. The more cars you take off the roads, the nicer the driving experience will be for people who want to keep driving!
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Re:The Koch brothers are campaigning against tax rises for p... by cascom on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @10:08AM (#17346732)
The problem is that in many American cities it doesn’t work like that - e.g. a lane of traffic is removed for a dedicated bus lane, increasing general traffic congestion, but bus utilization does not fully replace that same number of drivers that would have used that bus lane
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Re:The Koch brothers are campaigning against tax rises for p... by mikeash on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @02:23PM (#17349106)
Bad implementations of things are always going to be problematic. That’s an argument for doing them well, not for avoiding it completely.
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Re:The Koch brothers are campaigning against tax rises for p... by cascom on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @05:43PM (#17350503)
Agreed - I suppose the point I was getting at was that public transport's record in the US is very mixed, and as such, it is not unreasonable to be skeptical of proposed plans...
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Re:The Koch brothers are campaigning against tax rises for p... by mikeash on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @07:13PM (#17351048)
Yeah, that’s quite reasonable. We kind of suck at big public projects. I just wish more people wanted to fix it instead of just giving up.
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