I think it's a real problem that we've built our society in such a way that so many people have to be reliant on cars. There are many different solutions that we can pursue, but they're often like not as sexy as things that Silicon Valley thinks will be the future of transportation. I think that if we actually started to make the investments in alternative ways to get around, we'd be surprised by the number of people who would actually be interested in using them and want to use them If you know reliable, affordable, frequent, can actually get them to where they need to go.
Elon Musk created The Boring Company to fix traffic, but his fantasy of underground Tesla tunnels is running on empty. Curbed’s Alissa Walker and author Paris Marx explain.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Amina Al-Sadi, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, edited by Matt Collette, and hosted by Noel King.
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