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Originally Posted by Azul
I may be a minority, but I'm glad Austin hasn't taken any more significant steps into adding more light rail. While it's benefits would be felt in the short-term, I think the bigger concern should be if autonomous vehicles will render such an investment moot.
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Exactly. The cost of rail -per person removed from the road- is cost prohibitive and will NEVER happen in Austin so long as the voters have to vote themselves a tax hike to pay for it.
It cost too much to serve too few, and the "last mile" problem still lingers. We have a buses, why do we need a rail that carries a few thousand commuters, when they won't even take the bus? Money and the fact that Austin's zoning will NEVER allow the type of density needed to make it work, killed it before and will kill it again.
I too think that electric, point to point, driver-less cars are the inevitable future (maybe after I'm dead, but it is the future).
Buying cars for existing rails is their only viable option. And I'm pro-rail BTW.