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I disagree and it’s quite wrong for many European countries, for instance. The whole idea is that public transport would be preferable in terms of time, comfor
by louwrentius 4y ago
I disagree and it’s quite wrong for many European countries, for instance.
The whole idea is that public transport would be preferable in terms of time, comfort and cost. It can be done, there is no technical challenge whatsoever, it’s all politics.
In many cases traffic is so bad that cars are just as bad. But the key thing is to sacrifice / build lanes exclusive to public transport (busses) because those lanes effectively are so much more efficient.
We have a ton of electric busses already, which makes such transport even more ideal.
- mytailorisrich 4y agoI am in Europe and at country level public transport will never beat individual transport overall. In specific dense urban environments where cars can be extremely inconvenient (including because all the offices are packed in a few towers all at the same location), yes but again in the general case a bus will never be able to be as convenient as my own vehicle parked right outside my front door. And yes this is a technical and practicability challenge on top of being prohibitively expensive to run.
- louwrentius 4y agoTrading some convenience for a much better world in every conceivable metric is just more important.
- mytailorisrich 4y agoEvery conceivable metric except convenience, then... That sounds like a regression to me.
- louwrentius 4y agoYou know that a ton of people do exactly this: travel to a train station or bus/tram stop and they are fine with it. Lots of people don’t have cars. You seem to argue in bad faith as I have to point out the obvious to you.