I want a better distribution of walkable white collar work and more work-from-home jobs.

I used to live within easy walking distance to the light rail, and work was easy walking distance from the other stop. The stops were 20 miles apart through the center of the city.

I could drive there, around the beltway, around the whole damn west side in 30 minutes.

The train was over an hour on a good day.

I tried it:

Day one, there was some mid day stuff happening in town, the train was PACKED and spent 10m at every stop, that day was 2 hours.

Had a few decent days, then they hit a car. We were forced to stay on the train for an hour in summer heat, no AC.

Some days the train was every 10. Some days every 30, some days 2 in a row. It was supposed to change frequency with time, it changed rather randomly.

By the end of my first month, there was an outage, so they did a bus bridge. That trip home was 4 hours.

I know that the light rail here was just substandard. but that didn't make it any easier.

Trains need a specific ecosystem and population density to thrive. In the US, we seem to have an issue that installing train stops connecting suburbs to significant cities brings crime to the suburbs and pushes out boutique shops from the stops. Is there any of that in other countries, or does the train increase commerce in an area?

Look at something like the podbike and imagine that as a self driving micro taxi that goes 50 kmh max. Little embedded energy, material and only needs small batteries and incredibly energy efficient because of aerodynamics (slimmer). Energy efficient even compared to trains or busses, especially in areas or times with lower utilization.

If you want to eliminate cars and make mass transit work as energy efficient as possible, you NEED self driving single seater cars (or double seaters with face to face).

I think this image would be improved without the unrelated first sentence about self-driving cars.

I don't like cars, but I would prefer cars be built with seatbelts.

I don't like cars, but I would prefer cars use renewable energy instead of gasoline.

I don't like cars, but I would prefer they be built to sensible safety standards.

I don't like cars, but I would prefer they could drive themselves reliably instead of requiring a fickle and inattentive human pilot.

This is all fine for city dwellers, but for those of us living rural, 4busses per hrs all day and night would be waste. But a mix perhaps

That’s not boring, that’s convenient.

Things that are convenient don’t necessarily excite you, they delight and comfort you.

Self driving is already here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Rapid_Transit_(Singapore)

The tram in edinburgh scotland was awesome when I visited.

Come to Seoul~~~

I want flying cars. Fuck trains. Build nuclear powered flying drone-like cars, what's the fucking problem?

I know many don't like this but i'll say my opinion again:

Public transport should be built on the coastlines, which coincidentally also are blue states, because there's a high population density and public transport makes sense there because of the frequency.

Public transport does not and never will make sense in the midwestern and rural areas of US. The major reason for this is that people there simply largely (70% of people) don't want it. You can't get something through against the will of the local population. Just deal with it. You won't be able to take a train from the East Coast to the West Coast, you'll still have to fly (or drive) that distance.