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ok... Why the majority of people don't want to endure the hassle of riding the bus?
by FromHoiPolloi 1mo ago
ok... Why the majority of people don't want to endure the hassle of riding the bus?
- bluGill 1mo agoBecause most buses have terrible service and people are confusing the service with the vehicle. Where buses get good service they get used. When the bus is once per hour nobody uses it except those who have no other option and those are people who likely have 'issues'. Those people exist in every city but they a rarely seen anywhere else because they are a tiny minority of all people unless you look for a place they concentrate. Build a useful bus system and people ride it. However a useful system is expensive and so you can't get the money. In car cities 'liberals' support transit for other people not themselves and so they object to the costs that good transit would cost. If they had good transit it would save everybody money over their cars, but even 'liberals' can't see that that and so won't support it.
- FromHoiPolloi 1mo agoOh I fully agree. One thing that (I think) is being overlooked is that when some people switch from cars to public transit, the congestion eases. One doesn't have to make everyone switch to buses/light rails. Just enough for everyone to benefit.