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"I'm puzzled when people say the Swiss have good transportation because they're rich. It has nothing to do with that. They're still using trams from 1970. They restore them every 7 years. Making do is part of the culture. If you're using trams for 50 years, that's a hell of a savings."

β€”Norman Garrick

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Show threadClΓ©ment SteuerOct 2, 2025
@straphanger If anything, they are rich because they have good transportation 😸
Show threadRoger Moore
@clement @straphanger
I was going to say something similar. Maybe they became rich because they didn't waste money building freeways. Building freeways in existing cities is tremendously wasteful. First, you have to destroy existing buildings to make space. Then you spend even more money building them, and they're expensive to maintain. Finally, they make the areas around them awful, destroying even more of the city.
Oct 2, 2025 at 9:41pmWeb