MUH FREEDOM TO BE STUCK IN TRAFFIC

Saw a TikTok on the Saturn ad that posed how inefficient car transport is when scaled with large populations. Basically, if you remove the body of the car and have people walk on those same roads, they are just taking up so much space. Traffic is horrible even though there is plenty of space between people. The comments section lacks media literacy in the most basic sense. Either they were willfully ignorant, or just outright stupid.
All the comments were like "doesn't this prove cars are the most efficient form of transport?"
Americans truly need to visit Tokyo, or really any city outside the US that HAS ACTUAL PUBLIC TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE.
I live in Houston, the worst possible car centric nightmare and I get nearly killed every other day. It's gotten to the point where you don't even flinch when someone almost rams you in a head on because these near misses happen all the time.
I am so fucking sick of cars.
- sounds like large populations are the problem for cars, not cars being inherently a problem.

And the whining when motorists actually have to pay for some of the roads they use is unreal: https://youtube.com/watch?v=I02i-ddf4Ro

The government should just call them freedom roads and say letting people use it for free would be socialism
- I've known libertarians who were in favor of privatizing the infrastructure. They may get their wish.
Watched the intro, I imagine the rest, if your comment offers related context, is motorists getting mad about being essentially directly taxed?
“Why should I pay for trains I don’t use?!”
“Why should I pay for roads in your car-only neighbourhoods that I don’t use? Also the trains get more cars off the road and lessen traffic for those who actually do need to drive so it is helpful to you.”
“Stop I wanna be mad at public transit!”
- I'll say it.
  My city life would be better if everyone else took trains and busses, but I still get to drive my car everywhere.

A lot of people dont seem to realize, a road is living infrastructure. It needs to be maintained in order to stay usable. You dont build a road and it just stays there forever. Its a service, not a one time purchase. Modern societies rely on this service to keep them running. Its not freedom to go anywhere without big government dictating where you can go. Its a specific, constantly updating and repairing living network - all controlled by the government.

Train tracks are the same, they just fill a more specific role. And AFAIK, here at least, if you buy a train, you can ride the rails too. A transportation engineer told me once, if more people bought trains, the government would be forced to lay down more track. Its a funny thought but in that sense, roads and train tracks both ultimately serve the people.

how much tax is there on train ownership overthere?

Two hours, one-way to work is patriotic! What's good for the oil industry is good for Murka. Besides, Frank Freeway has to show his manhood by driving a giant truck that he doesn't need.

My car won’t ever drive off without me.

This comment is gonna be so funny in ten years or less
- I have a ten year old car and will be keeping it another ten years. It can't even shift without my help.
But even if it did, your car will never have an identical twin show up 10 minutes after, going the same way
- Ten minutes?! Ha!
  Where I live it’s every half hour, tops, and it takes ten times as long as driving and I have to walk next to a stroad the whole way.
  But the real reason this was my first thought is I was run over by a school bus I was running to catch in kindergarten and now any form of scheduled transportation fills me with anxiety.
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