• mad_lentil@lemmy.ca
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    15 days ago

    With adequate public transportation, it becomes much more comfortable and convenient.

    My city installed a few additional bike paths, and added some more buses, and the difference is huge.

    I don’t even need a car except when traveling longer distances.

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      15 days ago

      But there is no adequate transportation. And we just have no space for more tracks and more trams and busses. Quite the contrary, we even canceled many routes. Public transport is a nightmare here and I wouldn’t use it if I’d be paid to do it. Well and bike-paths is the same problem. No space. Biking is bad here, the absolute opposite to our neighbors the dutch. But I wouldn’t wanna use a bike anyway. I wanna get to point B quickly.

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        16 hours ago

        You’ve got to invest in it before it gets good. You’ve got decades of car centric infrastructure inertia making cars the more convenient choice. All you’ve got to do is invest just enough to make alternatives actually possible.

        I don’t know the challenges of your specific infrastructure, but there are certainly improvements that could be made

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          10 hours ago

          Sure you could tweak here and there, but you’d need to turn it completely around to make it attractive to me. And then, a car is still more appealing to me. But as said, we have limited space and growing numbers of people. It’s room to live or more trains. And trains are only used by the lower classes, so nobody actually cares…