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I’m sorry what? Cars are the most subsidized thing in America today, you can’t speak of success when they get billions of blank checks handed to them in many different ways. See here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092180092...

Meanwhile public transit: https://www.apta.com/research-technical-resources/research-r...

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From your first link:

> The true scale of social costs is rarely considered…

Yep, that is pretty much what I was expecting. Some hand waving and lecturing about qualitative, subjective externalities.

This is social commentary and opinion pretending to be science.

Are you arguing that when a car parks on the street, there's no actual value to that parking spot? The article is just arguing that there are externalities related to car use, and I'm confused how you conclude these externalities do not exist. Is it the use of the word social that makes you uncomfortable?

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