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@Gaismair If cars had existed back then they would have built a highway instead.

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@g33ked14 @SonDayumn @BilliardBastard Why would they resort to cannibalism when there's always enough dirt to go around?

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@VicctorianChad @tectonic_ideal The resources and wealth of the city are created by the people who work there, not the people who live there.

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@xmarksdaslop @criticalurban Ask the households without cars how awesome being broke is

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@xmarksdaslop @criticalurban The households themselves.

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@xmarksdaslop @criticalurban Over 90% of US households own a car, and the ones who don't are more likely to be poor. Poor people pay less taxes. And even then, they use busses, buy things, and otherwise benefit from the existence of roads.

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@xmarksdaslop @criticalurban Taxpayers, which is to say motorists.

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@TrashPanda08x What advantage do advantage do either of these trains have over a bus, other than being more expensive, and, in the case of the Mardi Gras, slower?

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@Truthful_ast If highways don't solve problems why are they congested?

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@ApoStructura Private capital is enthusiastic about data centers because they anticipate making money with them, not because they just want to have something to build.

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@the_transit_guy Nobody talks about the efficiency of road spending because everyone knows it's much higher than the only alternative.

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@EricEatsPickles How come Amtrak and public transit have such abysmal ridership when the Law of Induced Demand says they should be jam-packed with mystery people who spawn in to fill the excess capacity?

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@TheCityMentor It may be ugly but I don't see how you could call that "out of scale."

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@simonsarris The same people who say you'll go bankrupt if you don't maximize tax revenue per foot of sewer pipe will tell you that it's not only OK, but actively good to run a public transit system at a massive loss.

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@bonchieredstate I wouldn't mind if the current president took them down.

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@RokoMijic How is that supposed to be a whitepill anyway, it just makes them better per capita.

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@simongerman600 In 1960 we only had sparkling wine, as it was impossible to grow grapes in the Champagne region of France.

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@atlanticesque The only reason trains don't bring development is that no one uses them.

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@CompletedStreet Perhaps the most irrelevant comparison I've ever seen. Why don't you compare it to a patch of farmland, or a piece of the Moon? That could also be the same size!

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@MorlockP In the past there were of course buildings which were ugly as a consequence of being built cheaply. This does not justify modern architects in designing buildings which are ugly despite being expensive.