"Poor people live far from jobs and have to drive" is not a justifying rationale for keeping the cost of car ownership low. There is no justification for that. It is, however, a justifying rationale for changing how we structure our cities and our lives.
You can't actually compete with cars until you make them more expensive. It's literally impossible because there's just subsidies after subsidies piled onto the entire concept at every possible opportunity. Until you start making it more expensive somewhere, be it either time-wise or money-wise, the public transport will always fail to compete.
Just getting people in public transport doesn't work, you have to get people out of cars.
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"Poor people live far from jobs and have to drive" is not a justifying rationale for keeping the cost of car ownership low. There is no justification for that. It is, however, a justifying rationale for changing how we structure our cities and our lives.
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This is a chicken and egg problem that the oil and automative industries are more than happy to leave unsolved.
You can't actually compete with cars until you make them more expensive. It's literally impossible because there's just subsidies after subsidies piled onto the entire concept at every possible opportunity. Until you start making it more expensive somewhere, be it either time-wise or money-wise, the public transport will always fail to compete.
Just getting people in public transport doesn't work, you have to get people out of cars.
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Same problem. Why would we need public transport, everybody drives, it's a waste of taxes.
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yeah turns out when you don't stake your entire economy on oil and automotive companies and their brainwashed chuds you can actually do these things
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