> 1. The suppressed demand is not for cars, it's for fast transportation
This is moot. Yes, people demand fast transportation. Fast transportation in practice means cars. In other words, people demand cars.
This is moot. Yes, people demand fast transportation. Fast transportation in practice means cars. In other words, people demand cars.
It's can be quite a lot faster to travel through populated areas via train than car. When you have 30k+ people per square mile, cars do not work. Trains work really well.
I'm remorseful we made it such in practice. It didn't used to be that way, and I disagree that it should continue to be that way, for enough reasons that several popular YouTube channels with millions of viewers have already put in the effort to elucidate better than I could.
You'd almost think they profit from that message somehow.
Luckily for transit enthusiasts, the Kochs have not always been successful, even in sprawling cities with a sizable Republican base. Phoenix, Arizona[1], successfully expanded its light rail system in the face of opposition from the organization’s state branch.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/26/koch-activis...
https://grist.org/article/the-koch-brothers-hate-public-tran...