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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
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.
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...
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.