[meme] Trains -- not driverless cars -- are the future of transportation

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Image transcript: Calvin (from Calvin & Hobbes) sitting at a lemonade stand, smiling, with a sign that reads, “Trains and micromobility are inevitably the future of urban transportation, whether society wants it or not. CHANGE MY MIND.”

In the United States, I don’t know how you’d accomplish this. It would be impossible for almost all rural neighborhoods unless we’re going to build a grocery store within walking distance of most homes.

This is one of those liberal (I rarely leave my home) notions whose heart is in the right place but is ultimately stupid.

This comment seems to be based on the false presumption that cities and settlements cannot be transformed, however they can
They can, but it’s a multi trillion dollar century plus endeavor that well require eminent domain millions of properties in order to do it. My city doesn’t even have any land left to build more train lines. It’s just 30 miles of gridded small lots.
Well that’s what the climate disasters are for, to wipe the slate clean when people refuse to adapt