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    • vagrantprodigy@lemmy.whynotdrs.org
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      1 year ago

      Public transit isn’t feasible is many rural areas. I know you don’t like it, but that’s reality. Sending a bus 20 miles down a road in the hopes that one of 4 people on it want to ride on the bus just doesn’t make sense.

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        1 year ago

        Sending a bus 20 miles down a road in the hopes that one of 4 people on it want to ride on the bus just doesn’t make sense.

        Super true. I am disappointed bus systems have not started an on-demand system. Uber/Lyft showed what an app could do for transportation. Add physical call buttons at stops, or something, for those without mobile phones.

        I would ride the bus more if it went where I need to go.

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          1 year ago

          What kind of public transit that exists in reality can cover that situation? The answer is none. We can wish and hope for all kinds of things, but for the moment, reality exists.

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                1 year ago

                Okay. How about:

                • High speed rail between major metros.
                • Trams / light rail from major metros to nearby suburbia / rural towns.
                • Suburbia / rural towns also implement those same trams / light rail.

                •• Walkable cities / towns, with emphasis on bus / bike / light rail transit, slowing traffic.
                •• High density living with mixed zoning to minimize sprawl.
                •• Use of large tracts of land as parks and other third spaces.

                I’m sure there’s more, but that’s off the top of my head.

                Edit: oh, and instead of following up with “tHis WoN’t wORk”, please offer solutions. That generally goes over better than just complaining.

                • vagrantprodigy@lemmy.whynotdrs.org
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                  1 year ago

                  You are the one complaining and not offering solutions. Your proposed solutions above don’t solve the rural issue (unless your solution is forced relocation of everyone to cities, which is never going to happen) which has to be solved before you can make cars so expensive that only the rich can afford them. I also don’t know why you would want to reserve cars for the ultra wealthy, hardly feels like being ultra wealthy needs more perks.

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                    1 year ago

                    I see you stopped at the first sentence and decided to make your comment. Rural townships (as well as metros and any other city state) need to incorporate buses and light rail to improve their towns. And start to re-plan around transit, bikes, and walkability.

                    As for only the ultra wealthy owning cars, I don’t even want them to own cars. Ideally, I would hope cars are so regulated and so heavily taxed, that the only way for anyone to drive them in the future is on a closed track, like how race cars are now.

                    Humans are terrible drivers. Cars are bad for everyone. And decades of propaganda from car companies have made it where we have an insane culture thinking that somehow cars are the ultimate independence, when it’s actually a self-inflicted trapping.

                    We need to be free of cars.