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[meme] Why do people only seem to mean cars when they talk about electric and/or autonomous vehicles?
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this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2023
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instead of creating more car infrastructure we could make more train or tram/metro infrastructure to make sure there's always a station a walkable distance from where you want to be
For planning future communities, sure. It does not make sense to try to shoehorn trains into many parts of the cities we have today.
why not
How about shoehorning roads? Do they make more sense? Cause that's what's happening in a lot of places. My town had electric trams and big green spaces downtown in the 50s, but they've extinguished the tram lines and demolished the green spaces to build freeways cutting straight through historic neighbourhoods.
Of course not. If neighborhoods are being built with proper transit in mind, why would I ask for unnecessary roads...
not above ground.
Works for cities, doesn't work outside cities or for small countries.
That is not entirely correct. Look for example at Switzerland.
Sure, there are limits, you probably won't have a train station at every farm 50 miles from everything else, but you also don't need large cities to make it work at all.