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Originally Posted by accord1999
Take away too many of the popular choices and the people may find new leaders who won't.
Who get's to decide what "bad ideas" are?
Not really a fair comparison given Sydney is much bigger than Calgary. Compare it to Toronto, the TTC+GO easily match Sydney's transit ridership and both are dwarfed by NYC.
Yet even with that transit system in Sydney, the car remains king. Transit can be highly competitive transporting people to jobs in the central core, but those are only a fraction of trips that people make.
https://blogs.crikey.com.au/theurban...of-our-cities/ |
This is all because of city planning however. If you spend zillions of dollars building highways and roads all over the place, then the car becomes the preferred model because it's faster, more efficient and more convenient. If you had spent the same zillions of dollars to set up your city to make public transit faster and more convenient it would be used more.