Regional and Intercity Bus\Rail Transportation

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Originally Posted by lrt's friend

Meanwhile, we keep adding lanes to the highways to serve exurban drivers. Which is really inducing sprawl more?

And plenty of us called that out too. It's not like people are advocating for highway expansion as an alternative.

Originally Posted by lrt's friend

The fact of the matter is that we live in a free society where market forces are setting housing prices, the location and type of housing and also the location of jobs.

Your freedom should not translate into an externality that the rest of us have to fund.

Originally Posted by lrt's friend

I would say that we cannot and should not control the housing market too much. The government is going to screw it up. I don't want to live in a city where strict controls result in a large portion of the population living in low quality high rises. We have seen this in 'projects' in American cities and in communist countries. This should never be our goal.

How much time do you spend on QAnon forums? Because that is what this nonsense reads like.

You think the alternative is everybody living in projects?

Originally Posted by lrt's friend

Transit reacts to reality and will always be subsidized by the taxpayer, just as roads are fully subsidized by the taxpayer.

The question is which taxpayer..

Originally Posted by lrt's friend

The idea of a bus free downtown is a ridiculous goal.

Nobody advocated for that.

Originally Posted by lrt's friend

The small number of exurban commuter buses will have negligible impact on traffic. If it ever became a problem, we will need to be thinking of commuter rail service.

So it's a small number. But you hope that it will grow big enough to support rail service. How exactly would it remain a small number then?