Feels like I am the only person patient enough to not mind traffic. “Soul crushing” who cares? I’m effectively sitting in a room with a hifi stereo unit like a lot of people do anyhow with their free time. Driving purely on subconscious autopilot. It is on you if you can’t make that work for a bit IMO.
Crowded train is actually objectively unpleasant on the other hand. You have other peoples BO. The guy bringing in 50lbs of stuff strapped to the bike hits your knee. Another guy decides to smoke a cigarette in the train car or play with their blow torch. Everyone shoving you on the way in and out. Packed like a sardine. AC barely working. Elevators reeking of urine.
> Crowded train is actually objectively unpleasant on the other hand. You have other peoples BO. The guy bringing in 50lbs of stuff strapped to the bike hits your knee. Another guy decides to smoke a cigarette in the train car or play with their blow torch. Everyone shoving you on the way in and out. Packed like a sardine. AC barely working. Elevators reeking of urine.
None of this is actually inherent to transit or inevitable. (Where do you live that people would even consider lighting up in an indoor, public place? That sounds more like the 80s to me than today.)
Carbon taxes are for paying for the impact of carbon. The impact on everyone else from deciding to drive into Manhattan during a weekday is entirely separate.
Awesome! If you live in New York and you are a car lover, you now spend much less time standing in traffic. If you want to drive by day, every day, it will cost you $3285. But this means less standing in traffic, and more driving.
If you live in New York, parking is probably also $300-$400 per month, so it does double that price. But if you love your car, that must be worth it. And that's only if you're driving it in New York every single day of the year.
You can cut out auto foam cups without much change compared to redoing the entire country’s transportation infrastructure that was built with unprecedented federal funds.
