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All we need is to figure out how to have public transit generate accelerating, double-digit profit growth year-on-year, so that VCs all start bankrolling public transit startups, and then all our transit problems will be solved! /s
The thing is it can be quite profitable for the biggest possible VC firm out there. The government.
The Interstate System spurned so much economic growth and thereby new tax revenue. Weve just pissed it away on stupid shit and have failed to maintain critical bridges and things like that.
Yes, they just have to "run it at a loss". Instead of trying to drive up the fares trying to reach "profitable" levels.
A lot of the savings should come from reduced road deterioration and lower road maintenance costs.
And smaller roads. The routes that are ideal for trains already have the overloaded highways that are already too big to maintain rain and cant scale to traffic: just one more lane, bro?
If you find a way to link public transit to the further oppression of brown people or the extraction of oil, you'd get it in every city in America within 5 years.
And that's exactly why freight trains have no problems existing in USA.
I really wanted to argue with this, but you're right. Shipping companies would have gone truck-only by now to attack brown countries harder with climate change if brown neighborhoods in the US had any say over the use of train tracks through their areas. Yet another thing that's not about efficiency or cost, while corporations pretend to be all about money.
You're joking... but look into "brightline" with the Florida shit show and how they're now getting further public subsidiaries to make a "profitable" HSR (highspeedrail) between CA and NV. Doing exactly what you're stating but with their ears plugged while screaming as loud as they can.
I can't believe you didn't use the word "disrupt". Huge No-No. Why would I fund something that doesn't explicitly disrupt the public transportation space?
Just use AI to disrupt public transportation space! On the blockchain!
What we really need to do is figure out how to make public transit profitable to the automobile lobby.