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I thought it was obvious this would quickly become an expensive express option. It's not going to fix traffic for the masses, it's going to fix it for the rich.



Tunnels under the cities in Switzerland are pretty useful for the masses... oh, wait, they're all rich.


With snark but really though, isn't this the real issue? Are we trying to make transit better for everyone or just a few wealthy folk?


As with literally every other technology. It starts out as something for rich people and if it proves useful demand will grow, price will fall. Cars were a luxury once.

The point is to make tunnel boring cheap and to build an system of dynamic individual or group transport.

Rejecting the system because rich people use it first is socialist logic and has no place specially if its not done with government money.




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