The problem it can’t solve is that rich people might have to interact with mere humans. The car in a tube seats four and locks, so there’s zero chance you’ll have to sit next to a minority.
I wonder if rail would be more appealing to them if the coaches were designed as multiple isolated cells that seated 4-6, rather than straight-through corridors that permit mingling. (I’ve seen some old designs like that, in German narrow-gauge form)
The problem it can’t solve is that rich people might have to interact with mere humans.
I can relate. We, in Indonesia, have a problem where politicians, whose never even ride a train before, gets to decide the policies about public transport, and those who gets the consequenece is low-middle class who uses public transport. There was a meme from a year ago where a tone-deaf politician says the overcrowded trains in Jakarta doesn’t exist even though it overcrowding is clearly a problem in regional line (KRL) due to lack of trains.
I wonder if rail would be more appealing to them if the coaches were designed as multiple isolated cells that seated 4-6, rather than straight-through corridors that permit mingling.
Assuming we’re talking about short distance trains, absolutely no, lol. It’s just space inefficient. I will understand if it is a long distance trains, and it is a thing.
Short-distance city trains used to have multiple compartments too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_Door_(train) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris_(train)
Things like the “C-Trains” in Calgary, despite being intended for mass transit (and ridden mainly by the poors) are also multi-compartment.
You think public transit would be better if there were more obstructed sight-lines? Hunh. Are you also volunteering for mop duty if that’s not actually how things turn out?
Those tunnels are a death trap. The person who approved it should be investigated
Yeah, EV batteries and very narrow tunnel (so narrow you can’t open the car door apparently) is a bad combination
The reasons it’s so narrow is that Apartheid Manchild’s “Boring Company” has drills that are too small for the projects he envisions using them for.
And they’ll throw their arms up and say “who could have predicted that ???” When something terrible happens (conveniently ignoring decades of road tunnels accidents and the safeties precautions we learned from them)
The Vegas loop is a 2 mile tunnel accessible only to Teslas. It’s not solving any problems. They want to expand it- I don’t think that will go well.
How is it making money (as mentioned in the post), do people also have to pay to use it?
Edit: found it https://lvloop.com/tickets
Turns out it is a taxi service. I thought it is a tunnel that anyone could take to save time as well. Here’s a video of how it works.
Another interesting bit that I discovered is that city is not paying for these tunnels, they are covered by Boring company. Now it makes a bit more sense why this thing was ever allowed.
I feel like we could just sell privately owned, battery powered cars that can ride the rail, which comes with unlimited access to rental cars, trucks, bikes, and scooters from the train station. Obviously there are private garages nearest to the stations such that richer people can exit their private cars, and switch to their private vehicles without dealing with the poors. For a price, of course.
The thing that never ceases to astound me in the US is that the barrier for entry to public transport is so hilariously low, they have effectively nothing in most places so it’s absolutely trivial to quintuple the amount of public transport users in a few years if they just tried, and yet most places do NOTHING
There is such an unmet demand for public transport that a bus startup should be eminently viable, but nope, no one even seems to be trying.
Meanwhile in europe we already generally have at worst decent public transport and yet companies like flixbus exist, which i don’t even understand how they have ridership when they run routes parallel to railways that take like twice as long while obviously being less comfortable…Wait, how a tunnel can make a profit? Do you have to pay to have a privilege to drive through it?
Its kinda like a taxi! The tunnel has drivers and teslas that will take from one end to the other, tho there is a video on YouTube that walking the distance is faster than the tunnel…
