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If 99% of the Kansas City population are apparently getting by fine without public transport then why have it at all? The problem is people seeing public trans

If 99% of the Kansas City population are apparently getting by fine without public transport then why have it at all? The problem is people seeing public transport as a virtue in itself rather than as a solution to a problem. I catch public transport every day, but I wish I didn’t have to. If I lived in Kansas City then I could drive to work, but instead I live somewhere that parking is too expensive, so I’m forced to catch a train that goes from somewhere I’m not to somewhere that isn’t where I want to be at a time that isn’t exactly when I want to go, and in the company of people that I didn’t choose to be with.

chmod775 7y ago
No public transport is a problem and so are cities where you can only get around in cars. Places like that suck for pedestrians and also younger and older people and also people with disabilities who can't get around by car. Basically everyone who is reliant on parents or caretakers to drive them around. Not to mention that compared to European-style cities, the vast plains of concrete parking lots and streets that don't even have sidewalks!? (why is this allowed to even be a thing) that make up some American cities are about as charming as... well... concrete parking lots.