@Rentlar are train tunnels cheaper than bus tunnels? The ones that get built tend to be because single lane traffic tunnels are rare (and dangerous) and the are a larger bore than a train tunnel.
I was intending it as an indication that individual cars are hard to justify.
Additionally cars have inefficiencies around parking (time/energy spent doing it, space required) that PT doesn't.
They are only a good solution when ignoring/socialising so many of the costs and prioritising things that are really not important (or from a lack of imagination of what else is possible)
2-7kg personal vehicles are optimal efficiency, 20-70kg personal vehicles allow for everyone to do anything (okay some of the larger electric wheelchairs blow past 70kg pretty easily, but allow me some artistic licence).
Even busses aren't amazing on vehicle weight per person: 16,000kg for 50 people is 320kg per person. Good suburban trains bring that back down to 230kg per person.
So for cars to be viable your 5 seater needs to be 1600kg max. And one needs to actually use those seats.
@dillekant@Anamnesis There is also too many PHEV's that are given to people as work vehicles when they have no option to plug in. Ideal, the right user and real world can all be very different scenarios.
Don't take any numbers at face value, actually understand what is being measured.
@bull@CEOofmyhouse56 $270 sounds pretty reasonable. Some of the cost is that the right tools make such a job much easier, and it's very hard to have employees skilled in things like this constantly busy.
Also they can charge high because it is such an annoying job for most people, so at a high cost people will still pay.
