Most people do live in cities, yes. I live in a town with like ‘only’ 20k people and yet there’s decent public transit.
Cars and their lobbies are the problem.
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5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org 16 hours agoWhere do buses come far more often? Do you think everyone lives in the middle of a big city with working transit? Also no one said driving a car is good or a sign of wealth. Your right about cars being shitty, but that does not contradict the point which is made in the posted screenshot.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org 13 hours ago
Not the problem OP was posting about.
RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
My 20k people town only has hourly bus service.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 15 hours ago
The only reason I got my driver’s license is because the bus was over an hour late and I missed an interview. The transit agency had the gall to tell me that I should have taken the 6am bus for a noon appointment if it was so important the 9am bus was on time.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
And there it hits again: the core of the issue is not the bus agency, but the lack of support for excellent public transit.
Build another car lane, it gets filled up immediately.
Build a bus lane, have buses drive regularly between areas of cities, connect cities with each other by train, and you’ll see it’s much better. Lack of bus lanes, bicycle lanes and paths, trains, is a policy failure caused by RINOs like those MAGAhats of Trump, who vote for bootlicking the petrolobby.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
I don’t control the busses. I don’t dictate to the busses when they need to come. I don’t dictate to the busses what routes they take, or where they will actually go. I can only accept whatever level of service they are willing to provide.
I do control my car. I do dictate to my car when it needs to go. I create the level of service I will receive.
The monetary price of a bus fare is significantly less than the cost of a car trip. But even with the absolute best public transit system, the opportunity costs vastly exceed the difference. An hour commute turns a $25/hr job into a $20/hr job. Employment and/or housing choices are limited: Job and home need to be on the same bus line, because a twice-daily transfer is just going to kill hourly earnings. And, of course, there is the premium on urban housing.
Between the time costs, the housing costs, and the restrictions on employment choices, busses are a massive cost borne primarily by the impoverished.