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I tried taking my family out on a weekend on transit. 40 minutes wait for a bus that had any room, an hour to travel 10km, and it cost us $10 each way for the family. I live in a major city but our transit is trash. It's not fit for a city of this size.
That sounds horrible. Public transportation is such a vital thing for citys to function properly as a place to live and not just work in. And dont get me started on small towns or the countryside where not owning a car basically means youβre fucked. I cannot wrap my head around how politicians just fail to see this. Climate change might be the most urgent, but by far not the only argument for better public transportation.
Tokyo would like to have a word with you. It's not public transit in and of itself that is the issue, it's the implementation.
I think you read that wrong. They aren't saying public transit doesn't work in a city that size, but the public transit in their city isn't up to the standard it should be for a city that size.
You're right, I see it now. My bad!