Good public transit is impossible if people are unwilling to walk more! I must elaborate on this...
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Let's use railways as an example: the common mistake is to assume that tracks are analogous to roads, and trains to cars. The correct analogy holds that tracks and trains are BOTH the roads, and PEOPLE WALKING are the cars!
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You can think of a railway or bus line, which can only be accessed at certain places, as the pedestrian equivalent of an expressway. Expressways are not the only roads, nor are they the fundamental roads--they augment a network of local roads!
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In the same fashion, transit augments people's ability to get around by WALKING, and is nonsensical if you're trying to eliminate walking from people's lives.
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Musk's idea of loading cars onto sleds to run in autonomous clusters through dedicated tunnels is just reinventing the subway but with a metal shell around every passenger (which is why it will never be able to move as many people per hour for a given width of ROW)
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