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Where I'm it goes down to about -5C in wintertime (-4C ATM). I'm actually fine with it. Certainly in rural areas and in wider peripheral suburban areas public
by gkya 10y ago
Where I'm it goes down to about -5C in wintertime (-4C ATM). I'm actually fine with it.
Certainly in rural areas and in wider peripheral suburban areas public transport is less useful. But in actual cities (London, Paris, Istanbul, etc.) with a high density of people and their residences, public transport is the way to go. I don't know much about American cities, but if we got a comprehensive and functional system of metros, buses and boats here in Istanbul, where some of you would classify as a part of the third world, I guess you are capable of doing it in the US too.
- dogma1138 10y agoLondon doesn't get to sub zero temperatures often, and with 2 flakes of Snow half the tube and the overground is in turmoil. London is probably a "bad" example, I live in London and sure the public transport is probably in the top 5 in the world, so is Tokyo and Paris. But what many cities with good public transport have in common is that they had public transportation for a long time, were designed / rebuilt with that in mind when it was manageable and are relatively small for their population density. I would not want to be the one that has to design a public transport system for a sprawling city like LA where the greater LA area covers nearly 90,000 square kilometers for a size comparison the entirety of England is 130,000 sq/km.....
- gr33nman 10y agoSadly, anything that requires taxpayer funding toward the common good is a political non-starter in the US (socialism!). The best hope we have in the US for decent bus network is probably Uber/Lyft: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-15/uber-and-lyft-want-to-replace-public-buses https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-15/uber-and-...