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Comment Re:If they can't figure out EV (Score 1) 157

That seems to be to perception of some people, but for most of the country in practice it's the opposite.

EV owners that have a house or have charging where they live just plug in when they park and then it charges when they're doing something else. A few seconds plugging in is much less time consuming then driving to a gas station and spending a few minutes filling up.

If someone doesn't have the ability to park somewhere they can charge (either home or work) then an EV isn't going to work out for them.

Comment Re:The question to ask (Score 1) 199

There's a good site with multiple studies on this question: https://transitcosts.com/

Basically there are a lot of reasons, but a few key ones are:

- The US doesn't have centralized organizations for planning and designing rail systems. We mostly have small regional systems and each stretch of rail and each station is bespoke requiring an outside (expensive) company to design and built it.

- Bidding process along with accountability is a bit broken. Contractors aren't required to show line items and penalties for overruns and delays cause them to submit higher bids. The desgin/build process is also poor in part due to the previous point.

- Environmental restrictions cause massive delays, don't have proper coordination to expedite, and are easy for people against a project (or even sometimes for) to submit complaints that cause everything to become later and more expensive.

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