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That graphic is cute...now let's hope all those people live in the same place too!
What you'll see is that massive vehicle mostly empty when outside of the city.
I have been saying that our light rail here will be obsolete before it is finished. 'Uber pool' and similar systems are the future. Take a mini-bus with 12-16 seats driving around, with 'routes' created on the fly by computer, according to requests via phone. The Uber CEO said that uber pool was the future for the company. It's already a large portion of uber business in China.
They still gotta obey traffic signals etc. while a train just stops at stations.
That graphic is cute...now let's hope all those people live in the same place too!
What you'll see is that massive vehicle mostly empty when outside of the city.
I used the city bus system for years in Minneapolis when I was a young man.
I realized my biggest problem with public transportation is that it is full of the public.
I suspect others have stopped using public transportation for the same reason.
... that, and the fact that you have little to no control of anything. The city decides which routes you will take, where the stops are, when to go. You can't control who sits next to you. You can't control the temperature, you can't control anything.
Needless to say, not a big fan of public transportation.
They still gotta obey traffic signals etc. while a train just stops at stations.
Uber pool takes you door to door. A train does not. A train runs according to its schedule. Uber pool runs according to YOUR schedule. Last but not least, light rail is very expensive per passenger mile. Uber pool is very cheap.
The wheel was invented 4 thousand years ago and we still use it everyday. Just because something was invented in the 19th century doesn't automatically make it a dated idea.
I agree.
That doesn't change the fact that rail is the worst solution possible for new transit.
Exactly! Rail is a last century solution. We need 21st century solutions.
We know cars will not be the solution, one person sitting in a vehicle that weighs several thousand pounds is old school. A combination of trains and buses works quite well in big cities if done correctly. I don't see driverless cars as any type of solution in congested areas, Europe is way ahead of us in terms of rail cheap fuel has spoiled us.
And that's part of the problem. It's static. It ONLY stops at stations.
Then you can mix and match.
Take an uber to the train, the train and the train takes you to the desired location in the area. Did that, took an uber to the Gold Line which took me from Pasadena to Little Tokyo, a blvok from there I get some food and chill. Hop back on the next train and take an uber back.
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