Today we are in the Netherlands, taking bus route 395 from Zierikzee in the province of Zeeland north to Rotterdam, at the Zuidplein metro station. This bus ...
No. No you do not. You need to force your local governments to campaign for better public transport and infrastructure.
If you didn’t pay for roads, but you wanted public transit, I don’t see how that works.
There’s plenty of room to improve cities without having to bemoan that rural people are living wrong. About the only place I could see is making rural people switch over to intra-city transit instead of trying to have the cars wiork to get within a block of any given destination. That’s probably about as far I think to inconvenience rural people to meaningfully improve things.
Mass transit is only efficient if you have a density of people going the same way at the same time. A bus is only better when you have significant occupancy, and that’s not going to happen in very low density living.
If you didn’t pay for roads, but you wanted public transit, I don’t see how that works.
There’s plenty of room to improve cities without having to bemoan that rural people are living wrong. About the only place I could see is making rural people switch over to intra-city transit instead of trying to have the cars wiork to get within a block of any given destination. That’s probably about as far I think to inconvenience rural people to meaningfully improve things.
Mass transit is only efficient if you have a density of people going the same way at the same time. A bus is only better when you have significant occupancy, and that’s not going to happen in very low density living.