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i’m all for this and i never learned to drive and only bike and bus…but…the other argument is the “time it takes to transport 60 people”
jus sayin’

true facts - and time is a scarce resource

All that space taken up by those cars in turn creates a drain on time in the form of traffic. Los Angeles proves that cars are not a very time-efficient way of traveling at all. Instead of needing to get to faraway places as quickly as possible via transportation, why don’t we just design our communities so that we don’t have to go far for most things that we need?

Le Corbusier wrote about how the heart of his proposed ideal city lies a transportation hub which contains different levels for various modes of transport: depots for buses and trains, highway intersections, and even an airport. But while this scheme aims to streamline traffic flow by segregating the different transport types on different levels (I personally visualise them as roads), he was peculiarly also a fan of automobiles. Peculiar, because he was greener than most people in his time. But his ideal schemes are perhaps too grandeur to achieve. Which government would support urban planning that takes up so much space and infrastructure money, for the sake of efficiency? Nice to have, but not necessities, in light of other more pressing issues. Still a good point to start with for urban planners.

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   ALWAYS BIKE. But my bike broke :( and I’m moving in 2 months so there’s no sense in replacing it :(

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   me, too, Bob. me, too. :)

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