• bluGill@fedia.io
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    1 day ago

    These truck should only be used by the few people who need a big truck. That is a small minority of people.

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      23 hours ago

      Right. They should only be used by the few people that need them. But the reality is there are a lot of people with no business owning a big truck driving them in places that big trucks have no business being in

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        20 hours ago

        Back to my point: fix tranit so more people don’t think they need to drive. Small cars are still vastly more dangeious than transit.

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          16 hours ago

          I’ve known plenty of people in southern US states who drive trucks for purposes that don’t require trucks. They’ll never choose public transit over their trucks, no matter how good it is.

          …Though, realistically, that’s not exclusively a truck issue. If one can just step outside and get into their own car and be immediately en route to their destination, on my their own schedule/convenience, it’ll be hard to convince them to choose a less convenient mode of transportation.

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            10 hours ago

            Are you sure they wouldn’t use transit? Or is it just all the transit they have ever seen is so bad they wouldn’t use it and they have no vision of what could be - but if somehow you built they great transit they would use it?

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              7 hours ago

              I’m very confident that they wouldn’t. However, I suppose it’s possible that I’ve never seen transit that could be so good that people would choose it over their own vehicles. What would that look like?

              I suppose a few of them might do it if there’s free coffee on board (or beer, but that would be chaos lol) and it ran on VERY convenient schedules.

              People in the US place a LOT of value in convenience, so the public transit system would have to offer something that outweighs that. Do you know of any examples?

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                Convience is needed. That means it is not more than 5 minutes from when you get to the stop until you are moving. It means you can get to a lot of places in a short time. It doesn’t mean cofiee - bring your own, or stop by a coffee shop and get on the next but/train which isn’t that long of a wait.

                the above would cost a lot of money - but it is much less than people spend on cars.

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                  4 hours ago

                  Ahh I think I get it now. That might be feasible in a densely populated city. Most of the truck guys I’ve known live in suburban or rural areas. The few who lived in the city center drove much smaller pickup trucks like Toyota Tacomas, Ford Rangers, etc.

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                    Suburbs are dense enough to support the above transit levels. A few places is the world have it.

                    rural is not, but that is a minority of people.