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As an American, I envy you. I've spent much of my adult life trying to life car-free but it's really, really hard in the USA. The infrastructure is simply nonex
by vanilla_nut 4y ago
As an American, I envy you. I've spent much of my adult life trying to life car-free but it's really, really hard in the USA. The infrastructure is simply nonexistent or needlessly dangerous, and the few places you can live car-free have become ludicrously expensive.
- ActorNightly 4y agoEh, with decent income, you can definitely uber/ebike in developed places. Generally though, one thing of public transport that gets overlooked is that a) you schedule becomes tied to public transport, and b) you have to deal with people. Because of noise and labor regulations, public transport for short trips does not run at night. Also you can get delays due to passengers causing holdups, and so on. I honestly personally much prefer driving over public transport.
- earthling8118 4y agoHaving to tie a schedule to public transit would indicate to me that the transit is not properly set up. It should be traveling frequently enough that this is not an issue. One of my biggest reasons for enjoying flexible working hours is that I can go out during the day when transit is most frequent and I don't have to think about the timing since it is much much more frequent then. And another major plus is not having to deal with traffic. I get delayed far more by people in cars than I ever have with transit. This is a big problem with a lot of systems, especially the north American ones, but it isn't an inherent flaw in public transit. The more it is used and the more it makes itself available and frequent the better it works overall.