Notes

notable reasons cars are used over public transport (excluding cost):

solutions:

most of these can be solved with funding and efforts going towards green automated public services that self-co-ordinate with a degree of separation and a degree of choice
think land-ferry, rail-car
accessibility by default
driving for sport and leisure can remain on dedicated sites as with eg rallies, motor racing, bike sports. Cars for hobbies, vanity and collecting can remain.

yet to find an answer

psychological factors - factors of owning your own safe space and/or escape route (unless individual ‘pods’ are still owned personally and just interface well - but equity issues remain in this model eg high cost may be associated, and youth rights affected)
short distances
- a general accessibility issue in that ‘walkable’ routes are not walkable for everybody but public transport tends not to serve these distances. Solutions are few and far between, personal electric vehicles for one are difficult/expensive to access (think mobility scooter) and tend to have complex rules of use (think e-scooters)
extensive road networks left just to large freight?
motorhomes

The Problems with the Eglinton Crosstown are just getting started.

“In most of the good European “light rail” systems, tunnels (which are usually short) are used for two main reasons:” ⤴️
“numerous design issues, silly stop spacing (some stops are barely a train length apart), weak signal priority, low speeds with conservative operations (from the testing we’ve seen)” ⤴️
“Like so many things in public transit, context is incredibly important — Eglinton, or something somewhat like it might well have made sense with less tunnel in a much smaller or less transit-oriented city.” ⤴️
“In most of the good European “light rail” systems, tunnels (which are usually short) are used for two main reasons:” ⤴️
“numerous design issues, silly stop spacing (some stops are barely a train length apart), weak signal priority, low speeds with conservative operations (from the testing we’ve seen)” ⤴️
“Like so many things in public transit, context is incredibly important — Eglinton, or something somewhat like it might well have made sense with less tunnel in a much smaller or less transit-oriented city.” ⤴️

Notes