How to Quit Cars

Re:How to Quit Cars by NoMoreNicksLeft on Friday May 19, 2023 @05:11PM (#36006893)

It may be the case that on average everyone's life would be better. But this seems to be some fundamental misunderstanding of how averages work. Someone's quality of life increases, someone else's goes down. And maybe theirs doesn't go down as much as someone eles's goes up... so the average is up.

But if you're the one poor schmuck whose quality of life goes down. Then it sucks to be you.

I can already see that I am in that group. No thanks.

In the US, public transit will always be an awful, reeking experience unless the cost of that transit rules out those who vandalize, defecate, and litter. It may be different in Japan or Belgium or some place like that... but engineering solutions don't fix sociological problems.

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Re:How to Quit Cars by quadrangle on Saturday May 20, 2023 @10:47PM (#36017581)

The same status quo that has lousy public transit is the status quo that gets us a lot of "those who vandalize, defecate, and litter". There's no reason we are stuck with that stuff being rampant. There's a strong case that the inequities in our economic system set us up to get those results even.

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