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[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

It's the other way round. Individualism prevents communism. People drive cars to prevent them from voting for those parties.

Downvoters, do you think all that bad urban planning is incompetence of the specialists while every comment section is filled with geniuses who for some reason are enlightened about public transport but never in the position of power to bring it to life?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's the other way round. Individualism prevents communism

Is that supoosed to be a good thing or a bad thing ?

Downvoters, do you think all that bad urban planning is incompetence of the specialists

No, they're just narrowly constrained as to what they can do eg. They cant knock back a Cosc-Co because there's no train station so, you end up with a sprawling shit hole as de facto

A good follow on Mastodon who's an actual traffic expert and teaches it

@[email protected]

A good read

https://bookwyrm.social/book/1907724/s/killed-by-a-traffic-engineer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Is that supoosed to be a good thing or a bad thing ?

I don't judge. I just care about the mechanisms.

No, they’re just narrowly constrained as to what they can do

It's turtles all the way down. At some point, somebody makes a decision against public transport.

A good follow on Mastodon who’s an actual traffic expert

Thanks for the link. Frustrating content but good.