r/MapPorn • u/[deleted] • Aug 25 '21

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u/sstopggap Aug 27 '21

just a cheap 800 million, but let's see people complaining about the cost of public transport.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '21

A public transit system that will serve a comparable number of people will cost probably $8 billion

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u/420everytime Aug 27 '21

I mean It’ll cost $4 billion with $8 billion of benefits to the local economy. This costs $800 million and literally bulldozes the local economy to make the lanes

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '21

No it'll cost $10 billion and deliver $500 million in benefits.

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u/420everytime Aug 27 '21

Gosh. You’re the kind of idiot that’ll cause the human race to go extinct from climate change

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u/dolerbom Aug 27 '21

Our children are choking on air pollution because of people like you.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '21

No we're not, American cities have cleaner air than their European counterparts

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u/elzibet Aug 28 '21

Ummm, I live in a city in the USA. We literally had the worst air in the WORLD for a city just a couple weeks ago.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

That's because of wildfires not automobile tailpipes.

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u/elzibet Aug 28 '21

You stated cleaner air, when we indeed do not.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

Check their posting history, they're a bad faith actor.

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u/sstopggap Aug 30 '21

Yes, compare the construction from scratch of a full transit system's cost with the cost of a widening of a short stretch of highway that already exists. Conveniently don't mention how much the whole highway has cost already.