Why Not Electric?

While Electric cars provide an almost carbon-neutral alternative to transit, they still fall short in three core categories

Sustainability: Electric Cars are built with highly volatile and limited resources such as cobalt and lithium. Railed transit can also produce far fewer CO2 emissions per mile.

Affordability: Electric cars come with a hefty price tag that far outpaces its gas-powered alternatives, while public transit passes cost only a few dollars.

Traffic management: EVs do nothing to stave mass congestion and traffic, even though EVs have no engine to idle, their presence on the road perpetuates the effects that lead to traffic.

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Is Personal Transit Really That Bad?

This website is by no means claiming that all cars should be replaced by PT. In a lot of cases, public transit would simply fail to meet the needs of the people it’s meant to support. Cars are without a doubt needed in our current society, both as a way to travel and as a way to support one’s self. EVs are also a crucial next step in our planet-saving gambit, and this website isn’t meant to discourage the purchase or use of Electric cars, but instead an attempt to give a sustainable alternative that would be able to reach and impact a wider market.

This website aims only to focus on encouraging the development of more Railed Transit options in urban areas around America.

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