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> Why does someone living in NYC, Chicago, London, Paris need a car to get to work? There are more cities than that, and many have terrible public transport, e
by mrweasel 5y ago
> Why does someone living in NYC, Chicago, London, Paris need a car to get to work?
There are more cities than that, and many have terrible public transport, even in Europe. I live just outside a city with around 125.000 people. Public transport is terrible, it takes an hour or more to use the bus for traveling 15km (I need to leave home at 6:30 to be at work at 9:15, if I take the bus, but it's a 20 minute drive). Also most of the jobs aren't actually within the city center. Many can bike and do so, but that's not an option for everyone, especially during the winter and autumn.
- maccard 5y ago> There are more cities than that Sure, but the person I replied to said _large_ city. 125k is definitely not a large city, and having grown up in a similar sized one (~100k) they're poorly served. This is (anecdotally) because those towns and cities used to be small enough to not warrant mass transit, and now that they are people are convinced that it's not worth it because it's slow.
- mrweasel 5y ago125k is rather large where I live, large enough to make it one of the countries four major cities. But fair enough, if you talk about large cities as Berlin, London and other cities with millions of people, the argumentation changes.