[chaos_emergent]

Plus, the counter-factual is not the same use of bus systems, but instead lower use of bus systems in favor of private ride share companies who don’t have the incentive to limit congestion or pollution at all. The consumer revolution has plainly exposed that people will consistently choose the more convenient option.

[feet]

I hear trains are pretty damn convenient in Europe. I wonder why the US doesn't have anything like that, hmm

Cue: people who claim some absurd innate differences while ignoring the lobbying efforts of car manufacturers

[kwhitefoot]

The US does have trains in the north east, or so I have heard.