In Denmark's Train Dream, the Next Big City Is Only an Hour Away

Re:In Denmark's Train Dream, the Next Big City Is Only an Ho... by wahern on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @07:36PM (#20465156)

It's well known in SF that public transit is worse now than it ever has been. In particular, the trains and buses are slower than ever. It's been a long-term, multi-decade trend, but more recently ride sharing significantly increased the amount of traffic, disrupting SF's mostly surface public transit.

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Re:In Denmark's Train Dream, the Next Big City Is Only an Ho... by cortesoft on Thursday July 18, 2019 @02:02AM (#20467154)

It makes sense, because in SF it was really parking that made public transport more attractive than driving... it was always faster to get somewhere driving than public transport, but once you got where you were going parking was impossible. This meant the slower public transport was a better option.

Ride sharing services give you the speed of driving without having to park, so lots of people will use them until they cause enough congestion to make them as slow as public transport.

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Re:In Denmark's Train Dream, the Next Big City Is Only an Ho... by dannyobrien on Thursday July 18, 2019 @01:33AM (#20467003)

I was curious whether this was true, so went looking for studies. Here’s a pretty good recent one which concluded that ride-sharing increased congestion in SF: https://www.greencarcongress.com/2019/05/20190509-tnc.html

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