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Darn it Petrols Georg, not again

Fuck cars is nothing but city dwellers that think their lifestyle is scalable to suburbs or the sticks.

I think you mean !fuckcars@lemmy.world or !fuck_cars@lemmy.ml

(I hope a time will come when you can view all together with !fuckcars or something)

Best not to mention the trams in Edinburgh. They finally finished the line (all the way from the airport to the port in Leith) but it cost waaay more than planned, had to be done in two phases and was a massive ballache during the construction.

That said, it is an absolute win for public transport in the city but it did knock the confidence of residents. Mostly down to the piss poor management of the project by the council.

I transported them. I transported them all. Every single one of them. And not just the men, but the women and the children, too. They’re like passengers, and I transported them like passengers! I LOVE THEM!

bus

They are always free to try and cling to the underside of the bus

They aren't allowed to go out

Up to 1989 british women and children weren't issued a bus loicence

Sorry to burst your tortured made up anecdote, but taxis exist.

This is the most convoluted bullshit ever.

Since we're making up stories...

A man in a place with bad public transit gets the call that his mother has been in a car accident and is being rushed to the hospital at 8AM. Since it's rush hour, he spends the next two hours stuck in gridlock traffic (bad traffic today, something about a big car accident...). He doesn't make it in time for her last goodbyes.

In contrast:

A man in a city with a good public transport goes to work easily and there is minimal traffic. His mom doesn't get hospitalized because there are fewer cars on the road and the streets are designed for pedestrian safety.

or

His mom gets to the hospital more quickly because there is less traffic. She survives.

or

He runs (or bikes) to the hospital within 20 minutes because he lives close to it in a dense neighborhood without endless sprawl caused by parking lots and cars.

or

He gets to the hospital quickly via an efficient transit route since there are many routes going to a hospital because... it's a hospital!

or

He calls a taxi that arrives quickly and gets him to the hospital in 1 hour because there is less traffic.

Also, in all these scenarios everyone in the society is wealthier and healthier due to spending less money on their cars and breathing less pollution. They all get to work quicker because of less traffic congestion.

This is why people want better public transit.

"15 minute drive" at rush hour. My man could walk.

This entire comment could be summarized by "butbutbut people who live in areas with shitty public transport have to drive"

We already know this. The point is to make it better, because good public transport is better for literally everyone. I live on the edge of town, and I'm 5 minutes from 7 bus stops for 5 different bus lines, and a train station. Most of those buses come every 10-15 minutes, and are up to 5 minutes late at rush hour. It is by far a better experience to take the bus than to drive for me.

Omg. Let's argue a once in a lifetime situation and use it as the reasoning for people driving daily let alone the whole environment point the ad is about.

I know you're trying to say the opposite, but what I'm thinking of when reading your comment, is that more money should be invested in building better infrastructure to make buses and trains more reliable. Like 90% of the traffic hindering the buses is made up of cars. With less cars, more people could ride buses, trains etc. and people could ride a lot more frequently. People shouldn't have to fumble through their purses, because busrides should be mostly free.

I take the bus to work almost every day. I have a choice of three bus routes that work for me, one of which runs every 15 minutes. The one I take runs every 30. The only time they have been behind schedule was during a blizzard, but I got an alert on my phone about it.

No one has ever slowed down everyone else while fumbling for change because the busses are fare-free.

Public transportation can work, but we have spent the last 80 years developing a culture of individual car ownership so that we haven't prioritized making public transportation that works for the people.

The answer to these problems is just better public transport... buses coming more often. Problem solved. No need to resort to individualised transport because public doesn't run often enough.

wouldn't you just take a taxi/uber in such an emergency situation?

Also, buses don't exist in a vacuum, and PT can easily be faster than cars. Think of metros in the city, dedicated bus lanes on congested roads, and bicycle paths to stations and stops

Man have you heard of Uber? If one has an emergency there are solutions to your convoluted example, you know.

Why does it need to be aerodynamic? You know you don't need a Formula 1 shaped car to go faster than 30mph right?

Also the bus pictured is a London city bus. They can't go faster anyways because of all the traffic in London. There's busses designed to go on the highway at least like 60 mph.