This senator represents a state with literally no trains.
Sen. Mike Rounds: "I think people want to see the trains run on time."
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Jarrett Walker
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Jarrett Walker
@humantransit
Public transit planning and policy consultant (jarrettwalker.com), author of the book and blog Human Transit. Also literature and plants.
- If there are going to be climate-justified subsidies for owning electric cars, there should be subsidies for not owning cars at all.
- Hear me out: trees, chairs, restaurants, micro-playgrounds. Cities need space for people, and the only space that we're not using efficiently is the street.There are blocks of lower Manhattan that are so devoid of cars now itβs wild.
- Bombs didnβt destroy American cities in World War II, so America came home and did this.
- Rode this Teslas-in-tunnels system in Las Vegas just last week. The purpose of the changing lights is to help you not notice the incredibly low capacity, multiple stops, and the general feeling of driving around endlessly inside a parking structure. @boringcompanyHere is the brand new Boring Company Vegas Loop β Westgate Station tunnel that just opened. Source: tiktok.com/@casinocompwalβ¦
00:00 - Here is the @boringcompany Las Vegas Loop going just as hard as it can. After an hour, itβs moved a little over 1000 people, a tiny fraction of what real public transit can do with this kind of infrastructure.
00:00 - There's something really wrong with needing to have flights from Chicago to Milwaukee.
- Remember, everyone, the problem that good public transit solves is the efficient use of space, not just the efficient use of labor. Self driving cars are still cars, the most space-wasting form of transport ever invented.End of year hot take: Cancel all new train funding! We have cars that drive themselves. You can call a robot car in several cities across America- this isnβt science fiction anymore! Trains just donβt make sense in a world of autonomous vehicles
- In cities, @elonmusk's hatred of sharing space with strangers is a luxury (or pathology) that only the rich can afford. Letting him design cities is the essence of elite projection. humantransit.org/2017/07/the-daβ¦
- Europe *looks* wealthier than America because more of its wealth is in public, where it benefits everyone. Parks, public transit, civic infrastructure etc etc. Fewer giant mansions and private hunting estates, because the rich pay high taxes. Itβs a choice.Great example of how Euros do have lower incomes and lower consumption. People look at a picture of Europe and say "this can't be poorer than Mississippi." But people in Mississippi actually CONSUME far more. They have big fridge, crew-cab, A/C, ATV, etc.
- The purpose of highways into cities is to pump cars into the city faster than city streets can absorb them. It's the definition of congestion.
- We experts are not telling you that New York City buses could never be free. We're telling you that if they were, there would be a lot fewer of them.When someone tells you buses could never be free, ask them how much they pay to take the Staten Island Ferry.
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