Highways can never be wide enough. Gas prices can never be cheap enough. The automobile industry can't sustain itself. And people can't reliably drive. Cars suck. Public transit or bust.
@gardiner_bryant
Public transit may be the best method in cities, but in more rural areas, people need automobiles.
@gardiner_bryant
I live 30 miles from where I work. There are no trains or buses that I could take to get to the office.
I also volunteer as a teacher at a local private school on my lunch hour, that is another 12 mile one way commute.
There is absolutely no way that public transport would accomodate me.
@jlcrawf I live in a VERY rural area and there's a train station across the street from me that used to be the economic hub of the county. But then we wasted money on car infrastructure and the county became one of the poorest in the country. #AutomobileBankruptcy #CulturalAddiction
@gardiner_bryant But even in that situation, if you do not live within walking distance to a train station or bus stop, it is not practical. For me, I live three miles outside of town on a very rural road. If they did run a bus to my house, with as few people that live on my road, if they ran the bus more than once or twice a day, it would end up being more expensive and less enviromentally friendly than if everyone drove themselves.
@jlcrawf disagree. Rural communities are well served by trains. They were, anyway.