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Public transportation
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What's public transportation?
Seriously though, there is a train station about 15 miles drive from here. The nearest bus stop is maybe 12 miles away.
Seriously though, there is a train station about 15 miles drive from here. The nearest bus stop is maybe 12 miles away.
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Terrible.
The People's Republic of California spends MASSIVE amounts of our money on public transportation (its favored ones: bikes and walking). There are commuter trains (empty) and trolleys (empty) - both electric (our electricity mostly comes from coal fired plants but this is billed as "clean"), lots of buses (usually empty). One can choose to travel with this but it will take 4, 5, 6 maybe 10 times longer than if you drive. The State also is spending MASSIVE amounts of money building a state-of-the-art bullet train to connect two prisons in central California.
We have the highest gas taxes in the nation. But this is NOT to fund roads but to punish people who drive. It's also used to subsidize rich people who buy Teslas because those cars run on electricity (generated by burning coal or gas).
And the State encourages high density apartment projects that have NO parking but enclosed bicycle "barns" so that the people there will be forced to get rid of their car and ride a bike to work, to the supermarket, to the doctor's office (Bikes and walking are the ultimate encouragement). Some of our road tax money goes for this. A lot of cities (including my own) HATE this provision of housing with no parking since all it does it jam the streets with cars sometimes parked blocks away from where the people live. But the cities can't do a thing about it, it's state law. And cities HATE that the State says anyone can tear down their single family house and build FOUR homes in it's place, as long as at least 3 of them have no parking.
Californians love their cars. The People's Republic of California taxes them more than any other state to wage war on the automobile. California believes everyone should just walk or ride a bike. But rich people (very rich) with big homes can drive an electric car (the State will highly subsidize it) since they are powered by electricity generated by burning coal or by gas.
If you TRY to make sense of this, then you don't understand how liberalism works.
California is GREAT. It's just that its government _______.
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The People's Republic of California spends MASSIVE amounts of our money on public transportation (its favored ones: bikes and walking). There are commuter trains (empty) and trolleys (empty) - both electric (our electricity mostly comes from coal fired plants but this is billed as "clean"), lots of buses (usually empty). One can choose to travel with this but it will take 4, 5, 6 maybe 10 times longer than if you drive. The State also is spending MASSIVE amounts of money building a state-of-the-art bullet train to connect two prisons in central California.
We have the highest gas taxes in the nation. But this is NOT to fund roads but to punish people who drive. It's also used to subsidize rich people who buy Teslas because those cars run on electricity (generated by burning coal or gas).
And the State encourages high density apartment projects that have NO parking but enclosed bicycle "barns" so that the people there will be forced to get rid of their car and ride a bike to work, to the supermarket, to the doctor's office (Bikes and walking are the ultimate encouragement). Some of our road tax money goes for this. A lot of cities (including my own) HATE this provision of housing with no parking since all it does it jam the streets with cars sometimes parked blocks away from where the people live. But the cities can't do a thing about it, it's state law. And cities HATE that the State says anyone can tear down their single family house and build FOUR homes in it's place, as long as at least 3 of them have no parking.
Californians love their cars. The People's Republic of California taxes them more than any other state to wage war on the automobile. California believes everyone should just walk or ride a bike. But rich people (very rich) with big homes can drive an electric car (the State will highly subsidize it) since they are powered by electricity generated by burning coal or by gas.
If you TRY to make sense of this, then you don't understand how liberalism works.
California is GREAT. It's just that its government _______.
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You know, if you find $6/gallon for gas too much you can always buy a $75,000 Tesla, right?
Why do people complain? Just buy a Tesla and be done with it.
Why do people complain? Just buy a Tesla and be done with it.
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It's pretty good, but the prices have been rising since the cost of living inflation crisis and the rise in petrol in the UK. Buses and trains ultimately save you more money as you do not have to be concerned about paying for parking or getting a parking or speeding fine on your commute. I rarely use buses anymore as I own an e-bike for deliveries and travel.
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We don't have public transportation since I live in the country, and we can't even get an Uber or Lyft to come to our house...we'd have to get one in the small town 10 minutes away.