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thriftwy on June 1, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: In Colorado, an ambitious new highway policy is no...

Once you realize the sheer amount of commerce and business that is enabled by a decent metro system you see that they pay for itself several times over.

That's even easier to measure because these gains are localized.

akira2501 on June 1, 2024 [–]

Right. So let's have both! You can't replace the capabilities of roads with metro and you can't replace the convenience of a metro with roads.

Specifically, though, viewing roads or metro as a "loss leader" is probably an inappropriate analysis.

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