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Yeah sure, it's nice, but not every country can afford a mass ride-in-a-kangaroo-pouch transit system.
Government has started subsidising our Rooways ever since the alert on Dropbears was reduced (their population has been decimated by bushfires and land clearing).
I'm shocked other countries don't do it, it's a cheap and effective method of transport, and the fuckers are everywhere!
When I visited Australia, my only complaint was that at the beach, someone told us not to step on blue snails because they’ll kill you. Like, come on. I’m not somebody who steps on snails of any color on purpose. How am I supposed to avoid the murder snails?
The US absolutely can afford it, reduce military spending by 10% That is about 80 billion usd, with 80 billion usd they sure as hell can afford to build some public transport
Sorry but you have clearly never imported and raised giant kangaroos for mass transit. $80 billion is nothing to them. Nothing.
The cost of cars is something like 4.8 trillion annually in the us. Could build everyone transit in a decade if anyone cared.
Rich people transporting with the poors?
Will never work.