DBWI: Cars are regular mode of transportation

If automobiles were our primary means of transportation, then segways wouldn't be quite as popular as they are today. No segway lanes alongside pedestrian walkways, no taxi-segways ferrying passengers, etc.

Hell, we might not even have segway-riding infantry fighting in Afghanistan.
 
Segway infantry? You do realise that the ban applies only to civilian vehicle right? And that Segways are hellish expensive?
 
Then you say you have to walk 3 miles to get to a bus-stop. Without cars this sort of distance isn't going to exist except in very rare cases, because people will not live somewhere that it's going to take an hour to get anywhere important(half of which would be walking).

They're not mass-transit like buses and trains, but since anyone and everyone can hire a taxi I'm pretty sure they count as 'public'.

Right, which only gives us what, 58 years to sort out public transport.

Don't expect the 34th president to get a second term.
I do live in a special case I admit, parents live in a house built in a small town during the 20's, that they moved to to get away from in laws and own outright, while such a thing is rare, it is not that rare as small towns still made up a lot of the US population before WWII and it takes time to move to urban centers

As for taxis, those are a) hired b) often owned by private companies. In this situation I do not see this happening
 
As for taxis, those are a) hired b) often owned by private companies. In this situation I do not see this happening
Well I don't know about where you live, but around where I live buses are a) hireable (school trips, works dos, etc.) b) owned by private companies.
 
Well I don't know about where you live, but around where I live buses are a) hireable (school trips, works dos, etc.) b) owned by private companies.
OOC: Same here OTL (school buses are all owner-operator), but for mass transit they are usually city owned or directly contracted with the city (as far as I am aware). It is just Taxis are more like rent a cars which come with a driver in view to most people whereas buses usually have a fixed route and hiring a bus is expensive, relatively rare and only used for moving a lot of people, which makes it appear much more like mass transit than taxis. Remember appearance often counts a lot more than fact among most people
 
Disabled people or those living far from normal routes can have real difficulty using buses, so I expect taxis will he able to hang on on the fringe.
 
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