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Originally Posted by jamesqf
Maybe because not everyone lives in cities, and a lot of us want to go places where public transport would be highly inefficient.
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According to the latest US census, 80.7 percent of the population lived in urban areas.
Improving the ability for the mass majority of people to get around without needing to hop in a car will only lower demand for gas, making it less expensive for everyone, including the ~20 percent in rural areas.
Of course, getting the ~20 percent to allow the government to spend any money improving transit and street design in the urban areas without *****ing up a storm is nigh impossible, so this is all a pipe dream.