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I’d prefer public transport and trains over small cars, but I’d prefer small cars over giant cars.
Good luck finding usable publich transport in 99% of the US.
Blame zoning that makes building anything but single family houses illegal. With such sparse density you can’t have public transit that is affordable and frequent. It is time to transform those money-sucking suburbs into walkable mixed-use medium density neighborhoods.
you can’t have public transit that is affordable.
Total cost of a bus is ~$122 USD/hour ($165 CAD)
A car costs $729 USD / $988 per month on average and is used 380 hours per year on average. Therefore $23 USD / $31.2 CAD per hour (no driver cost, unlike the bus).
Therefore bus costs the same to run as 5 cars. We can’t afford to not have public transit.
Edit: the bus data is in USD, the car data is in CAD. I missed this and originally wrote 4 cars had the same running cost as a bus instead of 5.
Fuck that embrace trains
Embrace Chukudu. . . .
An easy first step would be making licensing more strict. Where I am there are classes of licence for passenger vehicles, larger transport trucks, busses, and finally semis/lorries. Each step up requires further testing and more stringent requirements.
I feel like it’d go a long way if your typical American pickup was moved up a class. How many people just wouldn’t bother with a big truck if it meant another driving test and visit to the DMV? Any vehicle over X height, X length, X wheelbase, whatever would become a “commercial truck”. Smaller trucks from back when they made small trucks wouldn’t meet the requirements.
Sadly I don’t think a politician running on a policy like that is winning an election anytime soon.
What’s bizarre is how backwards the current incentives are. Not only are American pickups the same class as normal cars, they are incentivized for the car industry because of their exemption from the fuel efficiency rules
“Sure, let’s embrace small cars… But you go first, I need my big car to protect my kids”
You mean it’s time for reasonably priced small cars to be sold in North America.
There’s are a TON of European cars that NA would gladly purchase.
But they don’t sell them here. And when we talk about ‘small cars’ like a mini or smart cars. They are ridiculously overpriced.
They’d rather die.
Clearly.