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Nicholas Decker
@captgouda24
It turns out that public transit is extremely important for reducing traffic. Because the relationship of traffic and congestion is extremely non-linear, a shutdown of transit can cause massive increases in congestion -- justifying substantial subsidies for trains and buses. 1/
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Nicholas Decker
@captgouda24
tThis is a methodologically simple paper, but very clean. In October 2003, the LA public transit workers went on strike for 35 days. We can consider the change in congestion, after sanity testing it, to be the effect of the MTA.
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Nicholas Decker
@captgouda24
During peak hours, the average delay increased by about 50% relative to what free-flowing traffic would be. That's (roughly) going from 1:24 per mile to 1:36, or the equivalent of making a 28 minute commute last 32 minutes instead.
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Mark Theeuwes
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Nicholas, I'm a Transport Economics student in Amsterdam and I wrote a paper on this topic where I came to a very different conclusion. Can I dm you a copy of the paper?
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Aintropy 🔰
@Aintropy
But a libertarian said public transit is bad?
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The Alex Nowrasteh
@AlexNowrasteh
Some good has finally come from public transportation. 😉 x.com/andreamatranga…
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@macplus0559
Do you think part of the reason why public transport provides such high benefits via reduced congestion is mainly because we don’t charge for road use effectively? If so, whats better for efficiency - better road use charging or public transport subsidies?
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The Suburbanist
@The_Suburbanist
A shutdown of private housing would overload public housing projects. Therefore, private housing should be substantially subsidized. A shutdown of private schools would overload public schools. Therefore, private schools should be substantially subsidized. A shutdown of health
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LZ Seishi🇭🇰😈
@LzSeishi
I can’t comprehend that car people can’t understand this. More public transit means more space on the road for us!
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s_mo
@smo841603557184
We are fortunate fewer people take public transit in the US than 20 years ago despite population growth and trillions invested Its a last resort for those who have no other choice but to ride with the homeless
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mir🇵🇸🇺🇦
@Mirs_____
"It turns out that public transit is extremely important for reducing traffic." no way
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Manuel Romana
@MRGdeviaje
No it doesn’t. The conclusion is false.
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Manuel Romana
@MRGdeviaje
Replying to @captgouda24
The analysis is completely flawed. It draws a general conclusion from a fixed system under unsustained unusual conclusions. The transition stopping was temporary situation, and the system did not change. This happened, but the conclusion is a local trucan in space and time: a lie
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