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mad_lentil@lemmy.ca â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠agoWith adequate public transportation, it becomes much more comfortable and convenient.
My city installed a few additional bike paths, and added some more buses, and the difference is huge.
I donât even need a car except when traveling longer distances.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
But there is no adequate transportation. And we just have no space for more tracks and more trams and busses. Quite the contrary, we even canceled many routes. Public transport is a nightmare here and I wouldnât use it if Iâd be paid to do it. Well and bike-paths is the same problem. No space. Biking is bad here, the absolute opposite to our neighbors the dutch. But I wouldnât wanna use a bike anyway. I wanna get to point B quickly.
mad_lentil@lemmy.ca â¨1⊠â¨week⊠ago
Youâve got to invest in it before it gets good. Youâve got decades of car centric infrastructure inertia making cars the more convenient choice. All youâve got to do is invest just enough to make alternatives actually possible.
I donât know the challenges of your specific infrastructure, but there are certainly improvements that could be made
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip â¨6⊠â¨days⊠ago
Sure you could tweak here and there, but youâd need to turn it completely around to make it attractive to me. And then, a car is still more appealing to me. But as said, we have limited space and growing numbers of people. Itâs room to live or more trains. And trains are only used by the lower classes, so nobody actually caresâŚ
mad_lentil@lemmy.ca â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
Indeed, I think somethingâs got to give if weâre to have any future worth living. Probably very many things should change. Iâm a bit of an misanthrope myself, so getting used to more communal arrangements is painful.
Would you be more likely to champion a less attractive option if it was part of a larger initiative to make a better world?