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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Government’s job is to promote safety and convenience and sponsor projects that cannot be efficiently and economically coordinated by private industry. [b]It is not the government’s place to engineer society[/b] or to deprive people of the right to choose for themselves between reasonable alternatives. America is a mobile society. The idea that driving is evil is gaia worship nonsense. Behemoth buses and trucks create huge amounts of pollution and are deadly to other vehicles and pedestrians, but all we ever hear about is private passenger transportation. It’s a silly product of a narcissistic, controlling mindset that considers nothing, however inconsequential, to be too insignificant that somebody else shouldn’t be telling people what to do. [/quote]

You're absolutely right! And yet, for the last 90 years, that's exactly what government has been doing: engineering society to make private cars the only realistic transportation option for most people. It's long past time we stopped doing that.[/quote]

The free market has made private cars popular. Government has facilitated that, both as a service and because roads are (or used to be) militarily significant. The first thing people in developing countries do when they are economically able to is acquire their own transportation. If public transit is do fabulous an idea in practice as opposed to in politics, why are the railroads run by the .gov; why are the buses and subways run by what amounts to the .gov (and endowed with its sovereign immunity); why are the people “who make the rules” not on public transit instead of .gov provided vehicles, sometimes with drivers and even motorcades?  If public transit was so great the various “ride share” services never would have gotten off the ground.[/quote]

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