politics

it's not a rich vs poor thing either

if you have $2000, you get a car

everyone has a car

You could not get a car for 2k here

if you don't, something is wrong with you

no I know this is an America only thing

I don't hate the concept of public transit, but because a car is required in our society, there's no reason for public transit to exist. Full stop.

With how the US is set up, I agree

and again, ther eare execeptions

seems like a waste to set up trams etc that normal people won't use

college towns and such, where it's basically a student bus, but is *technically* public

Max and I or Regi and I were talking about this stat

DC built a $10B metro line near me

and it gets 600 total riders/day

it's a vanity project

cities want the shiny monorail

they don't want to use it

Yeah we've discussed this in vc when comparing to my cities lrt, that gets more than that per hour

Seattle is infatuated with their iconic streetcars and trams

but other than the one they run 100m up and down a tourist street for Instagram photo ops

the actual streetcars are avoided, except by schitzos and homeless

My city is trying to revive the trolley but no one wants to ride on it because other people crash their car into it

thats a problem

Polu, doesn't your city have the Arch, just use that for transit

use it as a stargate

we should slingshot people from the arch

Spooky would you be in favour of big city wide arch sky bridges from one side of town to the other

Nah, I know plenty of older folks who ride the bus regularly. and back in my hometown my old very good friend road the local bus to work every day

do you have people trying to get the arch taken down because its an evil symbol of colonial america?

yeah Pika

all we have a are busses in these small towns. or cabs, but cabs are expensive

No, we all like the arch

ngl, even if it sounded like I was negative

I like retarded city vanity projects

we don't have ubers or lyfts up here, too small of population

everyone door dashes if they want gig work

and we don't have many of those

It's a joke in STL that when you see the arch you have to point it out

I like esoteric city art they put up that no one thinks looks good and it just becomes a landmark

historical statues and esoteric art

nothing in-between

like the Kitchener Intestine statue

When I travel, I stop at a lot of statue gardens ngl, people suck at making statues

it's kind of shocking

more cities should get weird looking massive buildings like this in Pyongyang

When I went to visit my sister in Kentucky I came across a giant cross in the middle of a shitter town

Jesus lived there

surely