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Compare it to trains not other cars
There is no reason any cars should be on the road in 10 years unless the country is extremely poor
I agree. Trains and light rail transit in general are the way to go but there's a major issue. Rich people never use them and they have the power to influence government so they don't spend 'their' tax dollars on it. Elon did it with the Hyperloop and it's why every public transit system I've seen in Canada or hear about, sucks donkey balls. Poor people can't afford to do anything but transit so there's no need to pander to them. .plus they have no influence.
In Alberta Canada, a study was done years ago to build a highspeed rail between Calgary and Edmonton for only $1.2B and instead the government give away $400 rebate checks to everyone, including inmates and people outside of Alberta which cost us $1.4B.
The current LRT (light rail transit) in Calgary is being 'upgraded' but the costs are getting crazy and they're already saying they don't have enough to do the rest of the plan (including a train to the airport which is like.. phase 3 or some bullshit) and yet we're all on the hook for this shitty system.
Cars just lack the luxury of trains
Add private booths and private cars then rich people will like them
Good idea but I'm too jaded to believe the rich will do anything that further distances themselves from the rest of us.
Parking in Calgary during the last boom was $850/mo. FOR PARKING. Some people can't afford that for RENT but here we got lots of rich assholes driving expensive cars paying nearly a grand on parking vs. buying a $112 bus pass.
I take public transit and I prefer it to driving. Too bad the system is so bad that doing anything other than doing downtown is a nightmare.
How do you get farmers from their field to the shop when they need to repair something ASAP so they don't lose crop to the coming rain?
Let's get real, individual cars are necessary to some people and that won't change because these people feed us.
A train obviously, they are faster than cars
How do you get them from their field to the train?
Making them wait for the train is more logical than having them take an hour of their time to go to the shop?
Do you expect them to carry a tractor transmission on the train?
I swear the anti cars crowd has no idea how big rural areas are and how far everything is. My tractor dealer is 40 minutes away, it's all fields and forest along the way, I'm supposed to have a train station in front of my house in the middle of nowhere?
You’re off-roading your transmission?
Edit: since he’s rather downvote than accept he is wrong. Pro-car people don’t realize how huge rural areas are, we used trains for farming long before cars and they had to build roads for all of it to get to where we are now. The train can be sent to the farm to bring everything to market but it can also be sent with people to help farmers get whatever broken part onto a train car and take it to be repaired then brought back and help to have it installed. It’s not city trains going to rural areas, it’s rural trains.