Public transport can, and does work in rural areas too.
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DasAlbatross@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoAnd 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.
MichaelScotch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
rtxn@lemmy.world 2 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.