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What does it take to replace transit? You have to match the fare, capacity and travel time of the services being provided now. Most alternatives are offering only one or two of these.

two big types of benefit that justify their subsidies.

First, dense cities do not have room for everyone to drive alone in a car, so their functionality depends on large numbers of people traveling in ways that use space efficiently.

Second, all communities have people who cannot, don’t want to, or shouldn’t be driving.

Most of these inventions seem to have a common theme: They will protect us from the unwanted company of strangers.

The biggest danger is that we will let transit die long before any technology could be ready to replace it.

in the US we have constructed our transportation funding streams to make transit’s costs visible, while the costs of car dependence are mostly concealed.

the future lies in making these decisions as locally as possible.