The U.S. was far less urbanized 100 (even 50) years ago then it is today, it wasn't a case of tearing up existing urban areas as much as paving over farm fields.
My neighborhood was a beet field prior to 1959 and the same more or less applies to all urban-suburban areas in the U.S. It's one thing to build something new onto an empty rural area, it's a whole different story to REbuild an existing urban area.
If you eliminate the car (or make it so expensive that it's virtually eliminated) how am I going to get from my suburban house to work and back every day in any kind of reasonable manner via a mbutt transit system?
I ain't walking a mile at the butt crack of dawn in the dead of winter to get to a bus-train stop and I refuse to live in a 'hive' just to make mbutt transit possible!
Mbutt transit is a good idea in a heavily urbanized area like London, Tokyo, NY, ect but with the widely spread out American suburbs, it's just not going to work.
Taxing Drivers By The Mile 1763Not true along the east coast. Those states have been urbanized since the 1700s. You mean like New York, Boston, Washington, D.C. and places like that? As Sam Kinison might say, "MOVE TO...
Any American mbutt transit system has to deal with the situation as it currently exists and IMO hybrid-electric cars with mbutt transit available in dense urban areas is the way to go, not trying to shoe horn a conventional mbutt transit system into the American way of life.
