{"id":179030,"date":"2018-06-11T19:19:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T00:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/11\/when-people-who-hate-mass-transit-make-mass-transit-recommendations\/"},"modified":"2018-06-11T19:19:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T00:19:00","slug":"when-people-who-hate-mass-transit-make-mass-transit-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/11\/when-people-who-hate-mass-transit-make-mass-transit-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"When People Who Hate Mass Transit Make Mass Transit Recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Appearing in <i>The Atlantic<\/i>, which seems to be ground zero for contrarian idiocy. is the suggestion that the solution to the chronic under-funding of the New York City subway is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2018\/06\/the-new-york-city-subway-is-beyond-repair\/562472\/\">tearing out the tracks and using the tunnels for self-driving cars and hoverboards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What we have here is a techno-libertarian who believes that the way to fix mass transit is to replaced it with personal transit, which have already clogged the streets of every major metropolis.<\/p>\n<p>The reason that the subway, or for that matter surface mass transit, moves far more people in far less space than individual cars is because it is following a discrete route with discrete stops.<\/p>\n<p>Personal mass transit is not mass transit, and has few, if any benefits of real mass transit.<\/p>\n<p>As to innovations, one only needs to look at how <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2018\/03\/why-there-are-taxi-medallions.html\">app enabled Gypsy cabs have worsened traffic congestion<\/a>, to see how they don&#8217;t f%$#ing get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appearing in The Atlantic, which seems to be ground zero for contrarian idiocy. is the suggestion that the solution to the chronic under-funding of the New York City subway is tearing out the tracks and using the tunnels for self-driving cars and hoverboards. What we have here is a techno-libertarian who believes that the way &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[406,471,403],"class_list":["post-179030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-stupid","tag-transportation","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}