Have you ever gotten on a bus? My car is in the shop and I’ve been riding the bus to and from work for about a month now. The bus smells of pee a fair few of the denizens who ride with me smell of pee, and last week a guy got pepper sprayed or maced by the police for being high (near as I could tell) at the bus stop. I’ve ridden transit all my life (quite literally grew up riding public transit to school and so on), and I gotta tell ya, I’ll ride share before I’ll actively ride a bus. Especially considering the ride share would get me to work in half an hour and the bus takes about an hour and 45 minutes.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Those are reasons to fund better public transit, not double down on smaller cars.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Better public transit than Seattle, NYC, Philly, Chicago, and San Francisco? Seriously. Seriously. I’ve lived all of these places and I gotta tell you, it’s bad everywhere in the US and the problem isn’t the transit. It’s people.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Literally any city in Europe or china has better public transit than anywhere in the US, and it’s not even close.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So your suggestion is to attack transit in America in a way that would not work for American because of America’s unique problems with scale. Good to know. Do you know what would happen in most major cities in the US if all the car drivers suddenly had to take public transit? It would overwhelm any system you put in place. And the pollution would be astronomical.