I’ve had to use privatized public transport for a few years, and also driven car for a few years.
Unfortunately public transport is unreliable af. I can tolerate the occasional delay, but if you need to get a connection and miss it, it often was at least half an hour of extra delay. Plus this often happened when its either exceptionally hot or cold, while I had to wait outside. And don’t get me started on strikes. Yes, workers should be paid appropriately. But if thousands of people suddenly can’t get to work because their line is canceled, what else should the people do? Take there non existing cars? Take the overbooked car sharing, uber and taxis, none of which can handle the surge in demand?
So as a first step, I’d rather start with improving public transport. Streets are owned by the state, why can’t rails be? Make it so good that I prefer using it. Because unless that happens, you won’t get the majority support for making things worse (even if it is to make things better overall)
It’s a catch-22.
There is no room and no funding to expand public transport, cause all the room is filled with roads and parking, and all the funding goes towards road maintenance.
I’ve had to use privatized public transport for a few years, and also driven car for a few years.
Unfortunately public transport is unreliable af. I can tolerate the occasional delay, but if you need to get a connection and miss it, it often was at least half an hour of extra delay. Plus this often happened when its either exceptionally hot or cold, while I had to wait outside. And don’t get me started on strikes. Yes, workers should be paid appropriately. But if thousands of people suddenly can’t get to work because their line is canceled, what else should the people do? Take there non existing cars? Take the overbooked car sharing, uber and taxis, none of which can handle the surge in demand?
So as a first step, I’d rather start with improving public transport. Streets are owned by the state, why can’t rails be? Make it so good that I prefer using it. Because unless that happens, you won’t get the majority support for making things worse (even if it is to make things better overall)
It’s a catch-22.
There is no room and no funding to expand public transport, cause all the room is filled with roads and parking, and all the funding goes towards road maintenance.