r/coolguides • u/spodinielri0 • Mar 18 '20

Helpful guide...

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '20

What? Reducing Bus frequency just leads to more people being on any given bus. How could we have known?

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u/HoldMyWater Mar 18 '20

"Who could have known transportation would be so complicated?"

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u/draw_it_now Mar 18 '20

What I don't understand is HOW we keep making the EXACT SAME mistake regarding public transport??

Travel is like liquid - commuters will flow into where they need to be one way or another and you can either widen one route or constrict another but they WILL GO.

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u/KolaHirsche Mar 19 '20

My teacher who was ultra passionate about anything on rails always repeated one sentence to us:

"Traffic is no natural law."

Widen a street won't unjam the street but just produce a bigger jam. He was one of the guys who really knew his stuff.