Posted on 09/19/2023 6:32:27 PM PDT by grundle
Cars are more convenient and comfortable than walking, buses and subways — and that is why they are so popular. Make them even cheaper through ride-sharing and people are coaxed away from those other forms of transit.
This dynamic became clear in the data a few years later: On average, ride-hailing trips generated far more traffic and 69% more carbon dioxide than the trips they displaced.
Uber Pool was so cheap it increased overall city travel: For every mile of personal driving it removed, it added 2.6 miles of people who otherwise would have taken another mode of transportation.
The best way to make urban mobility accessible, efficient and green is not about new technologies — neither self-driving cars nor electric ones — but old ones. Buses, subways, bikes and our own two feet are cleaner, cheaper and more efficient than anything Silicon Valley has dreamt up.
What’s the Cadillac of reducing our dependence on Cadillacs? The good old-fashioned bus.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfchronicle.com ...
Back to the bus? Too bad I live 10 miles from the nearest bus stop.
I would suggest the authors throw themselves under the bus they worship and decrease the hot air carbon emissions from their pie-holes.
There are so many potholes in my city. Those cars wouldn’t last a month.
Welcome to Soviet Poland.
What’s the Cadillac of reducing our dependence on Cadillacs? The good old-fashioned bus.
It was never about electric cars. It was always about confiscation of private vehicle ownership.
Who doesn’t love turning a 10-minute trip into an hour-long one?
But you get a full hour to enjoy the Bay Area's finest public transport mastubrators, ass gropers, maybe get a sex show in, watch someone defecate, possibly get stabbed, have your iPhone stolen...
Who would want to miss out on this?
Confiscation of private vehicles for the greater goal of power and control of the people’s movement.
Uber doubles traffic of those using it. Anyone who can do a little math can figure that one out.
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