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Re:We shouldn’t push a positive mindset on those in poverty by nanomonkey on Saturday February 19, 2022 @11:44AM (#30398403)
At human speeds: walk, bike, tractor, hitch a ride on a lorry (max speed 45mph), horse. Trains are useful for connecting longer distances at specific times of the day (commuting). Highways create an artificial monopoly on travel. You cannot easily travel along them, or cross them if you can't drive over 45mph. This speed is only getting higher.

There are studies showing that travel has actually gone down in areas like Mexico with the addition of modern Highways. The poor just can't participate.

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Re:We shouldn’t push a positive mindset on those in poverty by giardini on Saturday February 19, 2022 @03:21PM (#30400167)
nanomonkey says>"There are studies showing that travel has actually gone down in areas like Mexico with the addition of modern Highways. The poor just can't participate."<

More likely the poor used the highway once - to get out of the country and to the city. It isn't that they "can't participate", it's that they are gone.

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