• dumpsterlid@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Operating a subway is expensive only when you don’t compare it to operating a city on cars shrugs

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      10 months ago

      Yes exactly this. Car infrastructure is the most expensive transportation infrastructure per capita possible. It’s why the US spends amongst the highest amounts of public money on transportation in the world and has just crumbling highways to show for it.