Driving 8 hours round trip today to pick up one person, and I’ll never understand why Americans think this is more convenient than my colleague taking a train.
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@Caradoc879
True, but it’s a bit more than that. They seem to think that cars are always the ultimate in convenience. I know a couple that opted to drive in central London instead of taking the tube. 🙄
That’s because there’s a weirdly narrow subset of our population that have both experience with public transportation being available, and it being nice.
If your only experience with public transit was a slow, infrequent and unreliable bus that reeked of piss and came by once every two hours with no way to know if it’s running late or cancelled, you’d also come to the conclusion that a car was more convenient.
It’s one of those self fulfilling prophecy things. People expect public transportation to be awful, so they don’t use it, so usage numbers drop making sure funding gets cut further.
@DontMindMe
@fuck_cars @Caradoc879 People - including you - are creatures of habit. I’ve seen people drive to a neighbor’s house even though they had to park in the street and thus the total walk was more than if they had just walked - when the only option for almost everything is to drive you don’t think of alternatives when/if they would be viable.