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Forum: Living Car Free
05-24-19, 01:54 PM
Replies: 126
Views: 36,443
Posted By tandempower

You can easily read the OP. It's the first post...

You can easily read the OP. It's the first post in the first page of the thread.

The issue is why other governments create effective (high speed) rail transportation networks but not US...
Forum: Living Car Free
05-19-19, 05:34 PM
Replies: 126
Views: 36,443
Posted By tandempower

Name a human-driven car that isn't prone to...

Name a human-driven car that isn't prone to dangerous collisions. Name a sprawling city where everyone drives that doesn't waste land and cause deforestation, while making it difficult to LCF.
...
Forum: Living Car Free
05-19-19, 05:31 PM
Replies: 126
Views: 36,443
Posted By tandempower

Putting 500 people in 10 train cars in a line so...

Putting 500 people in 10 train cars in a line so only the lead car/locomotive has to punch through the air and the rest follow through the 'tunnel' without the rolling resistance of tires on pavement...
Forum: Living Car Free
05-19-19, 11:19 AM
Replies: 126
Views: 36,443
Posted By tandempower

You're talking about freight rail, not passenger...

You're talking about freight rail, not passenger rail.

Have you ever taken a real critical look at a multilane highway filled with cars? If you own stock in auto companies, that might just look...
Forum: Living Car Free
05-19-19, 11:00 AM
Replies: 126
Views: 36,443
Posted By tandempower

That's an interesting comment. Why do you say...

That's an interesting comment. Why do you say rail wasn't sustainable?
Forum: Living Car Free
05-19-19, 10:10 AM
Replies: 126
Views: 36,443
Posted By tandempower

Technically, yes, I did forget about older posts...

Technically, yes, I did forget about older posts in this thread. But upon re-reading it, it focuses m more on gas being cheaper in the US, which would not motivate people elsewhere to invest in...
Forum: Living Car Free
05-19-19, 10:04 AM
Replies: 126
Views: 36,443
Posted By tandempower

Lowering speed limits would have been a good...

Lowering speed limits would have been a good start, but a resistance/rebellion grew against the austerity, which for some reason is hell-bent on denying that rejecting rationality causes detriment. ...
Forum: Living Car Free
05-18-19, 07:51 PM
Replies: 126
Views: 36,443
Posted By tandempower

That's a good point I'm surprised no one has made...

That's a good point I'm surprised no one has made yet.

I don't want to get too political here, but in principle people in the US are supposed to make responsible choices without costs and taxes...
Forum: Living Car Free
05-18-19, 02:18 PM
Replies: 126
Views: 36,443
Posted By tandempower

Yes, it is fascinating to consider what makes...

Yes, it is fascinating to consider what makes Earth in its natural form sustainable and how changing various parameters alters the feedback cycles that keep it stable.

In general, whenever you...
Forum: Living Car Free
05-18-19, 12:03 PM
Replies: 126
Views: 36,443
Posted By tandempower

It didn't trigger me. I just found it funny that...

It didn't trigger me. I just found it funny that I used the space station example to make a point about how M155 thinks, and you took it as a launch point for a tangent about space stations. The...
Forum: Living Car Free
05-18-19, 10:59 AM
Replies: 126
Views: 36,443
Posted By tandempower

It's funny how it's possible to speak to a...

It's funny how it's possible to speak to a tangent in a way that further diverts a discussion from the relevant sequence of thoughts that led up to the tangent.

Maybe you should start a thread on...
Forum: Living Car Free
05-18-19, 08:06 AM
Replies: 126
Views: 36,443
Posted By tandempower

To the extent people LCF within sprawling...

To the extent people LCF within sprawling autocentric (sub)urban cities, they basically already live aboard space stations, only the space stations have been built on Earth because it's easier than...
Forum: Living Car Free
05-18-19, 07:22 AM
Replies: 126
Views: 36,443
Posted By tandempower

This is your main tactic for discouraging LCF,...

This is your main tactic for discouraging LCF, i.e. convince people that 'car-free' is a status and that they can only achieve it if they remain completely pure. It's like a guy who tries to talk a...
Forum: Living Car Free
05-16-19, 05:39 PM
Replies: 126
Views: 36,443
Posted By tandempower

You're missing my point about the space station. ...

You're missing my point about the space station. If humans can live sustainably on a space station, then there is no limit to population growth on Earth. A space station is a self-contained system...
Forum: Living Car Free
05-14-19, 02:42 PM
Replies: 126
Views: 36,443
Posted By tandempower

Ah, but to some people society's fullest...

Ah, but to some people society's fullest potential is for everyone to drive and pay car-payments, insurance, etc.; so for those people, investing in rail projects that fail or only provide very...
Forum: Living Car Free
05-12-19, 11:43 AM
Replies: 126
Views: 36,443
Posted By tandempower

You have to share roads and highways with other...

You have to share roads and highways with other cars when you drive.

You have to share planes with other passengers when you fly.

The difference with trains and buses is that you can stand up...
Forum: Living Car Free
05-12-19, 07:21 AM
Replies: 126
Views: 36,443
Posted By tandempower

It's not that simple, but this thread is drifting...

It's not that simple, but this thread is drifting away from high speed rail. If you want to continue on the 19th century, though, it was the beginning of railroads. Westward expansion created more...
Forum: Living Car Free
05-11-19, 12:59 PM
Replies: 126
Views: 36,443
Posted By tandempower

Your response to unsustainability and climate is...

Your response to unsustainability and climate is that not everyone sees it the same way. You're implying that there's no truth beyond what a majority chooses to believe. That is relativism.

My...
Forum: Living Car Free
05-11-19, 09:43 AM
Replies: 126
Views: 36,443
Posted By tandempower

Assumptions of overpopulation are just that,...

Assumptions of overpopulation are just that, assumptions. Let me ask you this: do you think it is possible for engineers to build a space station/vehicle that can sustain human life in a...
Forum: Living Car Free
05-10-19, 08:39 PM
Replies: 126
Views: 36,443
Posted By tandempower

What does that have to do with playing the...

What does that have to do with playing the relativism card against sustainability?
Forum: Living Car Free
05-10-19, 02:37 PM
Replies: 126
Views: 36,443
Posted By tandempower

Relativism is the straw you grasp at when you...

Relativism is the straw you grasp at when you don't want to face the truth. Good luck with it.
Forum: Living Car Free
05-08-19, 11:45 AM
Replies: 126
Views: 36,443
Posted By tandempower

Here, I just created this new thread that...

Here, I just created this new thread that addresses this new feudalism issue you seem to be raising:
https://www.bikeforums.net/living-car-free/1172478-ride-sharing-driver-sharing.html#post20920024...
Forum: Living Car Free
05-08-19, 09:26 AM
Replies: 126
Views: 36,443
Posted By tandempower

Please don't turn this into an anti-Uber thread....

Please don't turn this into an anti-Uber thread. It's all too clear how many different critiques have been devised to stop Uber from competing with the established taxi industry and otherwise...
Forum: Living Car Free
05-08-19, 06:03 AM
Replies: 126
Views: 36,443
Posted By tandempower

I think you have the correct way of thinking. ...

I think you have the correct way of thinking. You imagine yourself as far ahead in the future as you can and then think about what it will be like to look back and decisions that were made by people...
Forum: Living Car Free
05-07-19, 04:03 PM
Replies: 126
Views: 36,443
Posted By tandempower

Maybe once upon a time people thought it was fine...

Maybe once upon a time people thought it was fine to develop more sprawl, waste more resources, etc. if a country had low population density; but by now everyone should realize that population always...
Forum: Living Car Free
05-05-19, 04:51 PM
Replies: 126
Views: 36,443
Posted By tandempower

I don't think it's "what they know that we...

I don't think it's "what they know that we don't." I think it's a concerted political effort to block alternatives to the status quo, which sells oil, cars, car insurance, highway and road projects,...
Forum: Living Car Free
05-05-19, 04:47 PM
Replies: 126
Views: 36,443
Posted By tandempower

High Speed Rail: what do other know that we don't?

So what does countries in the rest of the industrialized world (Spain, Germany, China, Japan, France, Russia, South Korea, UK, etc.) know that we don't?

The Five Best High-Speed Rail Networks in...
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