AvaddonLFC ☄️ 🤘Jun 15, 2023

Why do people prefer cars over public transport?

https://lemmy.world/post/161327

Why do people prefer cars over public transport? - Lemmy.world

I’m 25 and I don’t have a drivers license. I mean, I’ve never really felt the need to go and get one. Public transport is usually the fastest option where I live, and it takes a lot less responsibility to use it. But most people would still prefer driving, rather than using the public T. Why?

Show threadBiggestBulbJun 15, 2023
In the US, public transit is almost universally unavailable. If it is available, it's a massive luxury (or strictly necessary, like NYC).
Show threadIncognitoErgoSumJun 15, 2023
...or completely inadequate.
Show threadatp2112

Or forced to be inadequate, in the case of Baltimore.

We were supposed to get a new east-west light rail line. It was shovel-ready and federally funded. However, our wonderful governor Larry Hogan, in his push to punish those Baltimore ni- I mean, apply his fiscal conservative bona fides, canceled it, calling it a "boondoggle". Instead of this "boondoggle", Hogan threw his support behind the Purple Line, a similar light rail proposal funded by public-private partnerships that was the subject of land disputes, went billions over budget, and is only just finally getting off the ground.

He also pushed for highway expansion projects that just so happened to benefit his real estate investments, but we don't begrudge him for that for reasons of...

Jun 15, 2023 at 7:03pmWeb
Show threadRashnetJun 15, 2023
Took my comment right out of my head. As someone who lives east of the city the redline would have been nice to have but racism took it away. I was just talking to my gf about it last weekend when we went into the city for a ballgame and how nice it would be to ride the train instead of driving.