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Re:Kansas City is first major city in U.S. to offer no-cost ... by weberc2 on Monday December 16, 2019 @08:57PM (#21809756)
I have a really hard time believing public transit could reasonably compete with the highway system with respect to return on investment. Consider how much food and consumer goods would cost without highway infrastructure never mind the secondary effects. Consider also that you would be making road travel prohibitively expensive for the lower classes.
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Re:Kansas City is first major city in U.S. to offer no-cost ... by milkytron on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @06:19PM (#21820078)
Public transit isn't meant for private (commercial) distribution of goods.

There are other trains for that, and they are hugely important to the US infrastructure. We would not be the country we are today without rail.

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