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blarth@thelemmy.club 6 months agoThe United States is simply too large and distributed for everyone to use public transportation. It will never happen, so get used to it and try to optimize what will be part of our future.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The majority of trips people make are within their own city/local region. Thats where transit should be implemented first. Your country is not “too big” for transit
blarth@thelemmy.club 6 months ago
It is too distributed in too many places for mass transit. The religious fervor over the fuck cars movement is not going to get people in highly populated, low density areas to walk a mile to catch a bus to catch a train full of homeless people to catch another bus to walk a half mile to their destination, when they could have completed that same journey in the comfort of their own car in 1/4 of the time.
Take Dallas for instance. I’m not going to do the work for you, but feel free to plan a trip from a random house in Allen, TX to a business 5-10+ miles away using both the public transit system and then a car. No one sane with limited time in their day is opting for the public transit option. And this is in a city with a decent passenger rail system.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 6 months ago
All of those issues could be fixed by building around transit being the prioirty instead of the car. Some cities actually have transit that is faster than a car because transit gets priority at intersections and can take a more direct route.
blarth@thelemmy.club 6 months ago
I’m open to ideas. Show me an example of it.