Mastodawn

𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇Oct 2, 2025

"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."

—Norman Garrick

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Seán Fenian Oct 2, 2025

@straphanger "A nation is not rich when nobody has to use public transit. A nation is rich when it has public transit so good that EVERYBODY is happy to use the public transit."

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Omar Antolín

@zakalwe @straphanger I think that's a quote by Enrique Peñalosa, former mayor of Bogotá, and the way I've heard it is slightly different (well, first of all, it's in Spanish, of course, but here's my literal translation): "A developed country isn't one in which the poor have cars, but one where the rich use public transit."