What terminal car-brain does to a society
https://lemmy.world/post/21956555
What terminal car-brain does to a society - Lemmy.World
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21954268
[https://lemmy.world/post/21954268] > Mom Jailed for Letting 10-Year-Old Walk
Alone to Town > > ## “I was not panicking as I know the roads and know he is
mature enough to walk there without incident,” says Brittany Patterson.
very funny to see this coming from Reason, a libertarian rag that hates public transit
I’ve seen Reason speak highly of Japan’s privatized public transport
Which public transport? Tokyo Metro is publicly-owned. Some of the JR branches are still publicly-owned. JR was only privatized in the late 80s as an anti-labor move and to deflect from the unpopularity of closing unprofitable rural lines. But of course the government built most of the network, including the first shinkansen lines.
High Speed Rail in Japan: Lessons from Shinkansen - Reason Foundation
The San Francisco Chronicle has an useful article on the lessons from Japan’s high-speed rail system called the Shinkansen. Japan now has five lines connecting this very urban and dense nation. While the article’s intent is clearly to promote high-speed … Continued
It sounds like they’re praising it in Japan and saying “of course it could never work here, Americans are just genetically predisposed to cars”.
Right. I will say there is a lot of the US where cars make sense because they use the same roads that farm equipment uses (which does not make much sense to build rail for), but in the cities (and thus the suburbs) it seemed largely cultural from any historical analysis I’ve seen (with segregation, excessive monopolization of passenger rail, and the advent of modern advertising).
grue