The infrastructure is set up for cars, and then everyone has to drive their own car because we can’t share a space respectfully. The only time I’d consider riding the bus is if I didn’t have a car and if I had to for work. In the states the view towards public transportation is that if you depend on it you’re not doing too well, which is sad. I commute 70 miles 1 way to work and would love to have a bullet train or something as an option. But as it is now, no, it’s not even an option. I had a previous coworker that took 2 buses to work every day, and he was always telling me about the “interesting” people he’d run into on the bus, like a guy with a puppet at 7:00 in the morning, or the drivers that didn’t know the schedule so they couldn’t tell him when another bus would be coming. No thanks.
The infrastructure is set up for cars, and then everyone has to drive their own car because we can’t share a space respectfully. The only time I’d consider riding the bus is if I didn’t have a car and if I had to for work. In the states the view towards public transportation is that if you depend on it you’re not doing too well, which is sad. I commute 70 miles 1 way to work and would love to have a bullet train or something as an option. But as it is now, no, it’s not even an option. I had a previous coworker that took 2 buses to work every day, and he was always telling me about the “interesting” people he’d run into on the bus, like a guy with a puppet at 7:00 in the morning, or the drivers that didn’t know the schedule so they couldn’t tell him when another bus would be coming. No thanks.