Public transportation, wave of the future.

[22lcidw]

You're opposed to improvement in public transportation? Damn. How myopic you are.

There is a difference in the costs of the beginning of the 20th century building most of the systems in established cities, and the costs of 2024. We are in decline.

 

[TheParser]

Oh, yes, public transportation would be great if:

1. It were free.

2. Buses and trains ran every 15 minutes.

3. Everyone were civilized so that riding public transportation was 100% safe (as, for example, in Japan).
But we all know that not all Americans are civilized.

 

[Anathema]

Sorry, my world isn’t small enough for that sort of shit. 1 day a week I travel 120 miles round trip for work. Anothe day I’m regularly traveling 100+ miles round trip for medical appointments. Not feasible for bus, train or toy car.

 

[surada]

We were in Panama in Feb, the system is Panama City is amazing. We as a country should be embarrassed that a country like Panama can do better than we do, but we are too busy fighting over beer and TV ads to care.

Saudi Arabia also has a new system.. slick.

 

[surada]

There is a difference in the costs of the beginning of the 20th century building most of the systems in established cities, and the costs of 2024. We are in decline.

Lol what a strange comparison. Do you know about the time value of money?

 

[Thinker101]

You're opposed to improvement in public transportation? Damn. How myopic you are.

Sure, get back to me when they impose more fees. or mandate your mode of transportation.

 

[Libby von H]

In early March Joe Biden requested $16.8 billion for public transportation and $3.2 billion for passenger and freight rail programs in his budget for the 2025 fiscal year.

A $198 million increase from the previous fiscal year and brings the entire financial investment in the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to $21.1 billion in 2025 when adding the requests outlined.

Forget your gas cars, that Biden wants to eliminate, forget an EV, that Biden is pushing. Biden will have everyone riding the damn bus, or riding the subway, the one where crimes are committed and people are killed. Don't you worry, Biden is looking out for your best interest.

MSN

And his plan was widely scorned as stupid and lazy.

JOELKOTKIN
" Take urban transit. Biden has proposed a policy that, by some estimates, would allocate $165 billion for public transit (including urban rail — subways, light rail, and commuter rail) against only $115 billion to fix and modernize roads and bridges. Transit, which accounts for about 1 percent of overall urban and rural ground transportation, would receive nearly 60 percent of the money.

 

[Resnic]

This has 2 benefits.

1 contractors rake in the cash from the sweet sweet federal government. They can absorb millions just in research and planning that allows them to take money without having to produce anything.

2 it means people will travel beyond their cities far less so they will more than likely stay in contained areas and own less actual land or homes by making people less independent.

Personal freedom and individual independence are two things that made our society great. Those instill a sense of freedom to go where you want, when you want. If you make it so people have to hang their hat on public transportation you take away those ideas.

 

[martybegan]

Saudi Arabia has had very successful solar applications since 1982.. whole villages off grid. Plus, there's Farasan island which is totally solar powered.

Saudi Arabia. Closer to the Equator. In a fucking Desert.

 

[BluesLegend]

Do you have a link to this?

That was back during the Obama administration. Small diesel cars that got 50mpg threw a monkey wrench into Dems push for EV's so Dems killed it. Diesel was and still is being demonized by Democrats, same reason the EV push. Remaining diesel powered trucks today have been crippled by Democrats pollution control devices which add $10k to the price, are crazy expensive to repair when they fail (look into soot cookers) and have gutted the great MPG diesels used to get. Diesels could also run for 300k miles no problem. Again that threw a wrench into the EV crusade. Recently Ford has come out with a very large gas powered alternative to diesels for their super duty trucks because government regulation on the diesels has become insane. Now fleets of what used to be diesel powered trucks, ambulances and the like built on those truck chassis will burn gas and get half the mileage of the diesels.

 

[DudleySmith]

Saudi Arabia has had very successful solar applications since 1982.. whole villages off grid. Plus, there's Farasan island which is totally solar powered.

Without oil money they wouldn't even have shoes, much less 'solar power'.

How many hail storms and tornadoes do they get in a year? Zero?

 

[DudleySmith]

Saudi Arabia. Closer to the Equator. In a fucking Desert.

And they didn't shut down their other power plants before they got all that 'solar' installed,

Saudi Arabia generated an estimated 374 terawatthours (TWh) of electricity in 2022, up 2% from 367 TWh in 2021. In 2022, Saudi Arabia generated 67% of its electricity from natural gas (up from 60% in 2021), 33% from oil (down from 40%), and less than 1% from renewables (the same as in 2021) (Figure 6).

International - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

www.eia.gov

In fact, they haven't shut down any other power plants.

 

[DudleySmith]

We were in Panama in Feb, the system is Panama City is amazing. We as a country should be embarrassed that a country like Panama can do better than we do, but we are too busy fighting over beer and TV ads to care.

So why didn't you stay there? lol ...

 

[DudleySmith]

Without oil money they wouldn't even have shoes, much less 'solar power'.

How many hail storms and tornadoes do they get in a year? Zero?

Ah, they get something like 15, mostly in one area. The U.S. gets almost 7,000, with the most frequent being in regions where 'solar' farms are the most viable, between Texas and Nebraska.