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> You must be American > But lets be fucking real My friends in Germany complain about how taking public transportation to work takes 2 hours, or 30 minutes b

• panick21_ 4y ago
  And in even more places trying to go threw or across the city takes longer with a car. Public transport is just fundamentally more efficient as a society. If you had said 'some people need cars' that would be one thing, but to act like cars are normal and car infrastructure is standard and normal, and public transit is some sort of luxury that only fancy societies can afford and even then only once they have built their highway infrastructure. A big problem with German public transport for example that right when they wanted to implement West German High speed rail, the unification with East Germany happened and new highway for cars took priority. And after that the EU believed the most important thing was building lots of highway all threw Eastern Europe. Walking, biking and public transport should be the baseline, and if money is left over you can have fancy car infrastructure and parking is the luxury.