Uh, yes, actually. I know someone like you can’t even fathom the possibility of a public transit system being well-built, but we’ve got 80 bus and trolley lines criss-crossing the city.
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DasAlbatross@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoWell if YOU have a bus stop near you then everyone must! That’s just science!
rtxn@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
DasAlbatross@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
And all the world is cities! There’s noooooooooo other type of living. Your egocentric view of the world is going to carry you really far.
rtxn@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Did you hallucinate that I said anything like it or something? Obviously not every situation is solved by the same concept. Dense city centres – sidewalks, bike paths, trams, human-scale infrastructure. Suburban areas – abolish Euclidean zoning, European-style grid streets, buses, local light rail services. Inter-city transit – high-speed rail. Smaller villages and towns – regional rail. It’s an issue that most of the developed world has solved.
Public transit is not supposed to replace cars altogether, but give people another choice. A transit system that is built well, operated well, and cheap, will reduce the reliance on cars, and make the streets safer for people or services that have to use cars.
MichaelScotch@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Public transport can, and does work in rural areas too.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
If you build it they will come
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Because having a bus to pick up 7 people in a day is really efficient economically and environmentally…
DasAlbatross@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
For sure. Just cruising around the countryside on the off chance that someone actually needs the bus that day. They haven’t for the past few but they have to go shopping eventually.
gaael@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Much more so than having a car-centric infrastructure. If you start cherry-picking you’ll of course find cases where a car would have been more efficient but public transportation needs to be understood as a whole.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
I’m not cherry picking Im just telling you my personal experience and the town I live in
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Yeah, all three of them.