> it often takes 2x as much time to get anywhere if you take public transportation outside of big cities
This is almost always going to be true, regardless of the country. Living in the countryside is always going to mean inefficiencies in terms of transportation. I couldn't say how you'd solve this, just increasing buses and trains is just too cost ineffective given how sparsely populated most of these areas are.
I do align with the whole anti-car crowd when it comes to cities though. We should encourage and enable people to use literally anything other than a car for city movement. Anecdotal but I know plenty of people that'll take their car for all kinds of stupid small trips that could've been at most a 10 minute bicycle ride.
Getting to sit in your car and pressing a little pedal sure is comfortable, and I feel like it's impossible to get people out of the mindset that using another mode of transportation is better for them, as well as everyone around them. All these little trips such as getting groceries once a week, driving across town to go see a friend, etc., really do accumulate to be a problem and you end up with cars littering streets left and right. And then we're not even talking about health yet.
In a city at least, the benefits of car ownership for the individual, take far too big a toll on a the livability of a city as a whole.
My dream would be that I could take my car to an edge location of a big city with a modern parking structure, where I can of course charge my electric car, and then switch without hassle over to some fast Metro that is going every few minutes.
I have never understood the idea of people who live in the city taking the car within the same big city to do stuff. That just makes no sense in most cases.
This is almost always going to be true, regardless of the country. Living in the countryside is always going to mean inefficiencies in terms of transportation. I couldn't say how you'd solve this, just increasing buses and trains is just too cost ineffective given how sparsely populated most of these areas are.
I do align with the whole anti-car crowd when it comes to cities though. We should encourage and enable people to use literally anything other than a car for city movement. Anecdotal but I know plenty of people that'll take their car for all kinds of stupid small trips that could've been at most a 10 minute bicycle ride.
Getting to sit in your car and pressing a little pedal sure is comfortable, and I feel like it's impossible to get people out of the mindset that using another mode of transportation is better for them, as well as everyone around them. All these little trips such as getting groceries once a week, driving across town to go see a friend, etc., really do accumulate to be a problem and you end up with cars littering streets left and right. And then we're not even talking about health yet.
In a city at least, the benefits of car ownership for the individual, take far too big a toll on a the livability of a city as a whole.
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