hono4kami@slrpnk.net to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours ago[image] Sometimes it feels like folks in US would build anything but efficient transit 🤦slrpnk.netimagemessage-square64fedilinkarrow-up1561arrow-down114
arrow-up1547arrow-down1image[image] Sometimes it feels like folks in US would build anything but efficient transit 🤦slrpnk.nethono4kami@slrpnk.net to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours agomessage-square64fedilink
minus-squareunexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·11 hours agoThis is a 3.5km tunnel with a speed of 55km/h. Thats 3.8 minutes of travel. No fucking way this thing could ever be profitable.
minus-squareInFerNo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·11 hours agoIsn’t this simply a private lane for whoever pays?
minus-squareturmacar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·9 hours agoThats the one in California, the one in Vegas has drivers and is between the convention center and a hotel. IIRC their peak capacity estimates do things like assume loading/unloading times for a family of 4 with luggage to be under 30 seconds too.
![[image] Sometimes it feels like folks in US would build anything but efficient transit 🤦](https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/9fee6912-22f8-44a0-b34c-75dd59e25f54.png){kind=link}
This is a 3.5km tunnel with a speed of 55km/h. Thats 3.8 minutes of travel. No fucking way this thing could ever be profitable.
Isn’t this simply a private lane for whoever pays?
Thats the one in California, the one in Vegas has drivers and is between the convention center and a hotel.
IIRC their peak capacity estimates do things like assume loading/unloading times for a family of 4 with luggage to be under 30 seconds too.