07-21-2022, 09:20 AM
(07-21-2022, 06:29 AM)clasher Wrote: I'd trade the money we spend on cops for a subway.
I wouldn't. I'm all for defunding the police, but there are far better uses of the money than a subway.
And if we're making magical choices that aren't realistic that would make the city better, I'd defund the police, dump that money into social services. Then I'd have built the LRT mostly at grade as it is now, but I'd have closed King to cars end to end and run the LRT all the way up it, and given it automatic priority at every intersection.
Now I have almost all the advantages of a subway at a lower cost than we spent on the LRT. Yes, it's still possible for someone to hit the train.
For a city of our density, building a fully grade separated system is just a subsidy for cars.