Originally Posted by
dwbstr
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.
If Mumbai adopts this system and sets an example for the world, great! In the mean time, I think there are other ways to stimulate an increase in public transit utilization that don't boil down to an all-or-nothing replacement of all personal automobiles with something else.
What this kind of all-or-nothing proposal essentially says is that if people aren't willing to get extremely radical with change, there is no other option so they might as well just not change anything at all. There doesn't need to be a revolution. Just a growing segment of public transit usage and bicycling.