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Originally Posted by rayne008
I know I'm in the minority, but I do not understand the massive investment in the Green Line when we seem to be on the brink of a transportation breakthrough with electrification and autonomous vehicles.
Autonomous vehicles should allow for much more efficient use of existing roadways, while also reducing the need for many personally owned vehicles.
LRT's are just not flexible enough to get around in the city, and an increasing number of the workforce will be moving away from our traditional rush hour downtown commute to a more tele-communication work from home environment.
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It’s a capacity issue, not a driver vs autonomous issue. It’s not possible to move everyone into single occupant cars, no matter how much more efficiently you move them, you simply can’tmove enough people.
Will a higher percentage of people work from home? Perhaps, but the total number of people working in centralized cores isn’t going to go down.