I think it's difficult for a lot of people to imagine a functional public transit system. In my city (small, but still a city), our buses are scant and unreliable, there's no light rail, and Uber is the only way to and from the airport and Amtrak. How can the average person (drives their car to a workplace) be convinced that this ineffective, politically vulnerable system is worth investing in? I'm convinced this lack of trust in our transit is why our metro area sucks to travel in and is dying culturally.
Make them visit Japan. It at least separates out the disingenuous from the unimaginative.
tbf the closest airport to me is in a city that you would have no idea was a city unless someone told you
Weird, like an airport in a small city in the outskirts of a major city, or what?
nope, it's fucking MILES from anywhere remotely significant, just has an airport because someone decided it was a good idea
tbf, it kind of is, it gets quite a lot of trafficfor context it has slightly lower population than Naperville Illinois
Makes sense to me living not far from the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton "International" Airport.
According to smart people, the reason transit was killed has a lot to do with racism, one way or another.
I mean I was, if anything it helped for me personally. Imagining a future where most things can be automated and how in a capitalist society that is bad for someone like me really shook me, because if anything it should help the workers more than anyone else.
Well I have watched almost five videos of donoteat and stupidcity, so I can handle a large city planning yes
https://inhabitat.com/car-free-sundays-are-the-norm-in-colombias-capital-city-bogota/
no, but I'm from LatAm which made me curious. never heard much about Bogota's urbanism or transit tbh.
De dónde sos?.
Despite how much I hate it, Buenos Aires has a fairly okay transit system, I dream with hundreds of km more of subway/trains connecting all the metropolitan area, but yeah it's fine I guess. Rest of big Arg cities can be labeled decent except for Cordoba, which is shit.
Other LatAm cities I've been to: Mexico and Santiago de Chile were cool at least the parts I used.
A crazy shit a venezuelan girl once told me: "in caracas there is no bus lines with defined routes, they just work like comunitary taxis". She was kinda crazy so I never looked into it.
