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My US city just cut it's fixed bus service. I want my country/continent to try and be more like yours!
by undersuit 3y ago
My US city just cut it's fixed bus service. I want my country/continent to try and be more like yours!
- inglor_cz 3y agoI suspect this has a lot of inertia based on the current situation. Plenty of middle class citizens here in CZ take public transport, or their kids do, so they are fine with their tax money being spent on it, and they also insist on the service being safe, clean etc. If everyone drove everywhere, like in most of the US, the prevailing political winds would differ. Both situations are equilibria separated by a sharp ridge that needs to be overcome in order to change one to the other.
- undersuit 3y agoYou suspect it? That's my hypothesis from the beginning. >I wonder if the US and Canadian reliance on personal transport...