Too much of the world is stuck arguing about meaning or semantics or who benefits or whether the processes serve the right ideology. Too few discussions I see in any public venues really have anything to do with a) making clear what the specific need is, b) coming up with solutions for those needs and c) debating their costs and tradeoffs.
"It's a crisis of meaning!" "It's a crisis of truth!" "It's a crisis of trust!" "It's a crisis of culture!" "It's embodied capitalism!" "It's the authorian tick of socialism!" "You don't invent the lightbulb by iterating on candles!" "We can't begin to fix these issues until we rethink how we understand public transit!"
No guys, it's literally "How much would it cost to run a bus from here to here" and "How do we pay for it?" Fucking chill out.
This is so true! And something we even struggle with here in little Omaha as a ton of money is being piled into a few miles of streetcar when we have a city 144 sq miles that could be better served by additional rapid bus lines, etc. Part of it where the funds are coming from and possibly who are the expected users of each infrastructure solution. Great essay
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Too much of the world is stuck arguing about meaning or semantics or who benefits or whether the processes serve the right ideology. Too few discussions I see in any public venues really have anything to do with a) making clear what the specific need is, b) coming up with solutions for those needs and c) debating their costs and tradeoffs.
"It's a crisis of meaning!" "It's a crisis of truth!" "It's a crisis of trust!" "It's a crisis of culture!" "It's embodied capitalism!" "It's the authorian tick of socialism!" "You don't invent the lightbulb by iterating on candles!" "We can't begin to fix these issues until we rethink how we understand public transit!"
No guys, it's literally "How much would it cost to run a bus from here to here" and "How do we pay for it?" Fucking chill out.
This is so true! And something we even struggle with here in little Omaha as a ton of money is being piled into a few miles of streetcar when we have a city 144 sq miles that could be better served by additional rapid bus lines, etc. Part of it where the funds are coming from and possibly who are the expected users of each infrastructure solution. Great essay