Originally Posted by
tandempower
I think the proposal to replace all cars with public transit would be too radical to be popular. Using public transit to reduce road congestion and sprawl is a more conservative prospect, yet how many people still react against it as if it was something out of 1984?
The conformity vs. diversity contrast of this picture from the prt website seems like it would terrorize people into worshipping existing auto-dominance purely out of individualism:
I'll try not to get too far off topic. One thing that could terrorize people just as much as that is the fear of getting left behind economically. If after it were proven on a small scale test, some large city where they have major traffic problems, Mumbai for instance, tried it and proved that conversion is not too difficult or expensive and that it has real economic benefits, America might be convinced to try it too and find that rather than stifling individuality it is liberating. How much diversity do the people on the right side of that picture really have at that point anyway.