• ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    It sounds very easy on paper, but that suggestion is just horrifically infeasible. It’s not that it’s an inconvenience, it’s just much more complicated and logistically impossible then how you’re portraying it.

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      1 year ago

      If you’re talking about the bus route then you just don’t know what you’re talking about. Like others have said it already happens in Moscow and DC, and I can add my own experience with Athens.

      Obviously if they want to do repairs or maintenance they don’t close one station, they close part of the line and replace it with an express bus line. Yes it’s slower and will make traffic worse but it simply must happen at some time.

      Going by your logic, creating a subway system in a city with traffic issues is a “lose lose” because the roadworks will make traffic worse for a couple of years.

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        1 year ago

        I’m not making excuses. I mean currently with the resources and systems available, it is not possible.

        You’re right, the government does not care about public transit.

        Do you think this is a group decision or something?

        “Local incompetence? Lack of political will? Fuck off, I’m sure the people working 50 hours a week and poverty wage jobs are absolutely roaring with energy to fight for public transit.

        Imagine blaming the people.