That just involves me leaving my house at 4am and driving 9 minutes to the local bus stop, then take a bus ride for 37 min, transfer from there to another bus for another 19 min ride, transfer to another bus and ride for an hour, then either call an Uber for a 3 min ride or I can walk for 30 minutes to reach my workplace.

Or... I can just drive and reach my workplace in 40min.

I would love to use public transportation, and when I lived in Japan that's all I ever used, which I much preferred to a car.

America first needs to get serious about establishing actual reliable and accessible transportation in order for more people to use it.

[–] Uriel238@lemmy.fmhy.ml 21 points 1 year ago

To be fair the big three (Ford, GM, Chrysler) made some politicians very rich suppressing light and cross country high speed passenger rail, also public transit all across the nation.

The US (through its deeply corrupted electoral system) totally bought that ticket to ride that train... so to speak.

[–] Zana@startrek.website 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please, think of the oil companies and quit being selfish! /s

[–] KuroJ@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You're right! How could I forget about the oil companies?

How ever would they make even MORE money now at the expense of Americans having better public transportation?!?

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

Flying pigs are actually carbon neutral, lets just use them