With most major European cities well served by trains and buses, bringing US transit up to par would cost $4.6tn
  • teft@piefed.socialEnglish
    14·
    15 days ago

    The gap is now so large that for major American cities to bring their public transit up to “world-class” status, it would cost an enormous $4.6tn ,

    What’s that? Like 5 years of defense spending? Gee, I wonder how we got here… /s

    • No_Maines_Land@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      15 days ago

      $4.6T is less than 1 year of combined federal, state, municipal, and individual transportation spending.

      $4.2 T combined individual

      $600 B federal

      $400 B state + municipal

      • Ooops@feddit.orgEnglish
        3·
        15 days ago

        So with scrapping all the “just one more lane” and similiar terminal car-brain expenses they could do it within years…