Re:Mike Ey, Microsoft HoloLens designer, killed in hit and run
by bri3d on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @08:38PM
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The population density in thousands of places in the US is more than high enough to support more sustainable transportation solutions, but yet even those places don't.
Do you believe that the existence of exurbs and rural areas is what's preventing cities from pursuing less fragile means of transit? Why?
Re:Mike Ey, Microsoft HoloLens designer, killed in hit and run
by Turing_Machine on Thursday March 05, 2015 @12:30AM
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"The population density in thousands of places in the US is more than high enough to support more sustainable transportation solutions, but yet even those places don't."
Places where the population density is high enough to have it (New York, other parts of BosWash, Chicagoland) by and large do have it.
The OP was complaining about Los Angeles. Five minutes with Wikipedia and a calculator will demonstrate why mass transit sucks there, and always will. And LA is dense compared to most of the country.
Re:Mike Ey, Microsoft HoloLens designer, killed in hit and run
by anon012012 on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @09:51PM
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Because the land is cheap, it is generally easier to expand and drive, and also because the US auto industry is 3 million jobs directly, 13 million indirectly, 2nd biggest auto industry on the planet, and so politically I guess it would cause problems to push for biking cities.
Increase the population of the U.S. to a billion or so, then maybe it will work.