This could be us...but Americans love $700 car payments

[Remote]

Breh you got a San Antonio AV but not from TX



quit playing with me. If you didn't keep your shyt private I'd quote you talking about being a crippled handicapped ass breh.

I have a San Antonio Spurs AV but I'm not from San Antonio. That's true.

I also have a watch that says Swiss Made on it and I'm not from Switzerland.

 

[Savvir]

It's not that I don't believe it won't cost money.
I don't believe we are stuck.

We are stuck because of the bureaucracy that’s exists when it comes to spending that much money on public works. Just getting the politicians in place locally and in congress would prolly take 30-50 years of consistent political participation to achieve.

 

[Remote]

We are stuck because of the bureaucracy that’s exists when it comes to spending that much money on public works. Just getting the politicians in place locally and in congress would prolly take 30-50 years of consistent political participation and to achieve

Maybe.
Maybe not.

I'm not quite that cynical.

 

[Savvir]

Maybe.
Maybe not.

I'm not quite that cynical.

How many years do you think it would take to get a congress that would run a trillion dollar infrastructure bill

 

[num123]

Explain how it won’t cost a lot to completely redo roadways, highways, parking lots, housing and commercial zoning and other aspects of urban planning nationwide?

Everything cost money, it that was the rationale that won out all the time then we would not have anything. If it can be done then it needs to be done, we have too many examples around the world where it works.

 

[NoMorePie]

imagine needing to buy a Ford f1750 superduty duramax polygon EcoBoost 9 cylinder super cabin crew cab for $95k and trying to justify it


I'm just venting.

 

[Savvir]

Everything cost money, it that was the rationale that won out all the time then we would not have anything. If it can be done then it needs to be done, we have too many examples around the world where it works.

There’s a political process to spending the money. I’m not saying we don’t have the money to do it… I’m saying we don’t have the politicians to approve it.

 

[904]

I was in a meeting the other day and a stat was thrown out..

Somewhere just shy of 20% of all new car payments are over $1,000 a month

 

[Windows 91]

Holland's bicycle infrastructure is amazing. It'd be cool if cycling was an option where I live but I'm not riding in an unprotected bike lane. People here do not know how to share the road with bicycles and I would end up getting killed or paralyzed eventually. And biking on a 117 degree July day...

 

[klientel]

I haven't even been out of the continent and this is plain silly, a good bus/lightrail public transportation system makes something like that trivial

They had lightrails when I lived northwest, no issue bringing your bike and just jumping off wherever, might get there faster than car if there's traffic, people without cars moving with groceries

shyt I was going to catch a flight, one of the stops is directly at the airport easily saved Uber money or owing someone a favor asking for a ride


We have the technology but that would hurt the big car corporations and gas companies and THEY control your government official who says nah we can't do it guys sorry

Ummm I don’t know if you realized this but the thread isn’t about public transportation…it’s about biking infrastructure vs cars.

But feel free to keep talking about light rails in the corner, if that makes you happy.

 

[NoMorePie]

I was in a meeting the other day and a stat was thrown out..

Somewhere just shy of 20% of all new car payments are over $1,000 a month

would rather buy a 50k luxury sedan than a beige 2006 Corolla because that luxury sedan would look cooler in their parking lot

I miss my 2006 matrix

 

[Remote]

How many years do you think it would take to get a congress that would run a trillion dollar infrastructure bill

I don't know.
You're talking about a national infrastructure bill that would seemingly transform the nation, when in reality these sort of things center in on the most viable and needy areas and flourish from there.

The national highway system cost something like 130 billion, adjusted for inflation...something like 1.5 trillion. If the highway plan wasn't impossible, neither is public transit adjustments.

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

I ride a bike often, when it's 50 degrees or more. Not riding it in the snow and cold tho.

 

[Don'tCallMeLuckyB]

Lmao this shyt gay af. Might as well be a Chinese food delivery boy

I need two 15s in the trunk so I can knock your baby pictures off your grandma walls

 

[concise]

That looks wasteful, should be a light rail or streetcar there instead of bike lanes.