• willworkforicecream@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      So the model only works if you have a large number of free (at point of service) buses which go between everywhere anyone may want to start to anywhere they may want to go?

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        1 year ago

        I lived in a larger city and for me it is normal to switch trains or busses a few times when i travel from a to b. But because they made a relatively smart system changing is in most cases fast.
        Like trains meeting up at a station and people can simply walk to the other side to get the other train.

        So it does not need all possible solutions, it needs a few that work well together.