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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Sun Jun 13 14:26:06 2021, in response to Re: Anti-car democrats are a road hazard, posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jun 11 08:35:12 2021. So in Chicago thehighway folks built the Dan Ryan (and got LBJ to donate Intersate funds for a commuter highway within a single county) supposedly to relieve gridlock on Lake Shore Drive. The morning the Ryan opened, it was jammed,LSD was jammed and the Rock Island, and Illinois Central between them collection 5000fewer fares.There is a series of pictures/"rtenderings" common in transit advocacy circles, showing roadspace necessary for 60 persons-frame 1 all single occupancy car, 2 on bikes, 3 in a single bus. The geometry is inexorable. Single driver cars WASTEland. EVs are cleaner even if the electricity is carbon based because it is easier to police pollution from a single generating station than thousands of cars--not to mention lower maintenance cost per mile driven. The lithium issue willneed to be solved much as the coltan etc in our cell phones. AV cars will NOT fix tyhings; they will exacerbate traffic as they deadhead to the next user much as ubet/lyft have increased traffic in cities. It remains to be seen what pattern of offioce v WFH emerges. |
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