Subj : Re: Things I miss
To   : MRO
From : Arelor
Date : Tue Feb 22 2022 17:22:13

  Re: Re: Things I miss
  By: MRO to Nightfox on Tue Feb 22 2022 02:58 pm

 >   Re: Re: Things I miss
 >   By: Nightfox to Denn on Tue Feb 22 2022 09:01 am
 > 
 > 
 >  > Also, costly for whom?  If you don't own a car at all, taking public transportat
 >  > can be less expensive than owning a car and paying for gas, maintenance, car
 >  > insurance, etc..
 > 
 > public transportation is inconvenient, costly to the user and the city and it can b
 > dangerous due to the types of people that use it.
 > 
 > i took public transportation for a while when i had to share a car and it cost me m
 > money and took more time. i was often late to work and i got home an hour later whe
 > lived 15 mins away by car.  i took my bike in the summer months and beat the bus ev
 > time.
 > 
 > the only good thing is i was the only guy on the bus in the morning. so that was a
 > waste of city money to drive one dude to 1 place with 2 buses.

It really depends on the area.

In my city, public transport funded by the administration (ie. taxes) is usually cheap
but also close to useless. It is the sort of public transport which does scheduled
trips which are programmed to arrive to factory X half an hour after the
corresponding turn begins :-S

Collective transport funded by private enterprises is a bit better. It is much cheaper
than using a car but coverage is very limited. If you are likely enough to have a
private bus doing a regular line you want to travel, at hours which are fine for you,
it is great. If such coincidence does not happen, you either don't get to use it or
you get to use it at very inconvenient hours.

A friend of mine emigrated to Japan. He came back recently to pay a visit to his
family. The first thing he did upon purchasing a subway card was to say "You don't get
robbed like this anywhere but home."


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