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I wouldn't say Polish cities have proper public transit. Warsaw, a city of 1.7 million, have just 38 metro stations. The other cities, with population sizes of
by badpun 4y ago
I wouldn't say Polish cities have proper public transit. Warsaw, a city of 1.7 million, have just 38 metro stations. The other cities, with population sizes of 500-700k, don't have metro at all! Compare that to Copenhagen, which has 39 metro stations, with a population of just 600k people. Only when reach that level, cars will truly be redundant for majority of people. As it stands now though, travelling via car in cities is still usually much faster than going via public transit. It's only natural that people don't want to waste their time with the inefficient public transit.
- seba_dos1 4y agoThat kinda makes my point stronger - I have only lived in those two cities I mentioned and yet I found their public transport perfectly sufficient for everyday use. Despite of that, my neighborhoods were always filled with parked cars. I am using taxis at times, but rarely and I usually go out of my way to not use them at traffic hours, because then it's often much slower than going by train or tram (not even speaking about metro [Warsaw] or fast tram lines [Poznań], which are hard to beat even outside of traffic hours). Also, when I'm sitting in a public transport, I'm free to spend my time somewhat productively or even just relax by, say, playing a game on a console - while driving a car is tiring, stressful and you can't really do anything else at the same time, so it seems to me that it actually wastes much more time. And what you sometimes gain by traveling faster, you often lose searching for a parking spot anyway.