Alan Fisher
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The legendary critic of American cities, cars, trams, trains, and planes. Why is he legendary? Well, he suggested the following:
- Americans should take the train instead of adding one more lane in hopes that it will fix traffic.[a]
- The American railway network should be nationalized. Or, at least, they should bring back Conrail.
- Houston should consider improving its suburbia.
- Electric cars are bad.[b]
- More trains should use electric locomotives instead of diesel locomotives.[c]
- Freight trains should be used more often as opposed to trucks.
- Metra must change.
- Burying highways underground still won't work.
- Trolleybuses are superior to electric buses.
- In a car-centric society, LRVs are superior to trams. [d]
- Parking garages are bad.
- ↑ the option need be viable in some way befitting the context prior to change occuring
- ↑ they exist within a similar wavelength of internal-combustion cars. the goal is to reduce total cars, but reaching zero remains impractical. there are still improvements to be made along the way
- ↑ this needs to be said?? is there a reason that diesel locomotives are still used?
- ↑ what's the difference between the two? like genuinely