Not all urban areas can have workable public transit systems fir example New Orleans would not take to trains well at all given a significant chunk is under sea level and sinking.
Reading about New Orleans, it looks like a lack of willingness from administration to actually support the system after Katrina, including not enough funding to replace busses, wrong schedules, making the streetcar share the road with personal vehicles. Same old North American city making the same old excuses.
They aren’t nearly as permanent and are easier to replace and repair. Building a train system in New Orleans would be neigh impossible as anything underground will be destroyed by flooding salt water and anything above will be torn apart in hurricanes.
Not every city can have mass transit and it’s probably time to ask if we should attempt to preserve the cities that cannot be modernized with mass transit.
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A great majority of people do live in cities or suburbs, which are great places for electric vehicles and autonomous railway systems.
Not all urban areas can have workable public transit systems fir example New Orleans would not take to trains well at all given a significant chunk is under sea level and sinking.
Reading about New Orleans, it looks like a lack of willingness from administration to actually support the system after Katrina, including not enough funding to replace busses, wrong schedules, making the streetcar share the road with personal vehicles. Same old North American city making the same old excuses.
What I read: https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2018/11/20/new-orleans-public-transportation-000796/
And how are cars and roadways immune to this?
They aren’t nearly as permanent and are easier to replace and repair. Building a train system in New Orleans would be neigh impossible as anything underground will be destroyed by flooding salt water and anything above will be torn apart in hurricanes.
Not every city can have mass transit and it’s probably time to ask if we should attempt to preserve the cities that cannot be modernized with mass transit.