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This photo summarizes this concept clearly.
Density is the solution. Dense urban areas are the most economically viable portions of a city/town. Large parking lots and wide 4 or 6 lane roads are subsidized on the the otherhand.
Bring places closer that people want to be, no need to build a home in a field and then a Walmart 40min away on the opposite side of town. Only to then need to subsidize the road and parking to get between the two points.
How the fuck do you get from the carpark to the stadium in the upper picture? Park you car and then hail a taxi?
I've been to some attractions in america that have shuttles for their massive surface level parking lots
So like buses? That pool several people together? To go always a certain route? Wild idea: Why not extend these "shuttles" to and throughout the city?
Those photos give a nice visual comparison. Do you have a source?
Capitalism for mass transit and Socialism for cars.
That is BLANKING BS!
Scandinavia SOCIALIST countries have better Mass Transit, than the Automobile focused & Mass Transit ignored The USA!
You missunderstand that. Mass transit has to finance itself, so it is basically capitalism. Cars on the other hand get a lot of support from the government, so it is much more like socialism.
Mass transit typically doesn't support itself anywhere. It's a net cost for the region / city / whatever that's only partially offset by the fees.
Yea, and in north america we barely build any transit because our policy makers see that and go "how the hell will this ever be profitable?"
They would never apply the same attitude to roadway costs though cause we need that for the economy (but somehow transit for the workers isn't also for the econmy)
No you misunderstand socialism practice do the same thing.
Most importantly you miss-understand what Capitalism is, it is always been about moving money up, not making something that is able to financing itself. Only FDR became USA President did at least taxes reach 90%, loopholes did not help though, of businesses/Super Rich Economic Class/Owners & that built a Caucasian Middle Class, living their best lives, a lot better than 70s-until now.
Where Socialism is about moving money down, & under non-Capitalist dominate country, through taxes & out to the rest of the people, in a country.
Also important to know COOP is money moving out to all in the organization & under non-Capitalist dominate country, through all their taxes & out to the rest of the people, in a country. So yes, it does COOP businesses finance themselves.
Scandinavian countries are not socialist…
lmao this
You are right, I should have said, Democratic-Socialist. Thanks, for bringing the correction to my attention.
Still wrong. They are 100% liberal capitalist democracies. Welfare states are not socialist.
Ignorance go away I am done with you!
That’s the spirit! We should always be ready to shun our own ignorance. But now you learned!
Social democracy ≠ democratic socialism
Interesting read
I really enjoyed that they’re criticizing Los Angeles’ freeways with a picture of a San Diego freeway.
Needed the "Los Angeles" sign in the foreground.
The DFW metroplex is running into the thing. Even stupider is that the suburbs are voting to leave DART (the bus and metro system) because it “doesn’t benefit them enough”. The way that the middle class will cut off their nose to spite their face is absolutely amazing at times.