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Utter tripe.
Where I live it's dozens of little villages scattered about here and there, with four sizable towns.
Weaving public transport through all of those places is impractical.
I can't function using public transport that'll take me an hour or two to get between appointments in different places when it's a fifteen minute drive.
To get close to that you need so many buses running empty and so many routes it's insane.
Maybe let local people decide what's right for them instead of making blanket proclamations for everyone and every place?
You don't need to bring car usage to zero. It's a win to bring it down.
Local, non-expert, people are famously wrong. You'd have everything paved over for more parking if you listened to them.
So, basically, you're living in a geographic area that's incompatible with your lifestyle, and it only works with taxpayer subsidies for the roads.
Nah, lifestyle is well suited to the area.
We have roads here older than every American country and traditions even older.
The land and the people are one.
Then get rid of everything with an internal combustion engine and live like your ancestors did on that land, don't expect modernity to be delivered to you by truck while you live your stupid medieval peasant fantasy
Yeah we don't have trucks here. Except for a few industrial people so you're not making sense.
Hands up anyone who thinks my ancestors had public transport?!
Ok, that was definitely the point of what I was saying and you aren't being disingenuous at all.
How many of those ancestors wound up marrying their cousins, do you think?
Has that got anything to do with whether I need a car or a bus?
You're getting downvoted because it's a fuckcars com, but you're not exactly wrong. Plus, I don't see how we could effectively get rid of cars without making everyone move to the cities.
80% already did, and the other 20% can be ignored.
I agree.
Rural public transport could absolutely be way better, especially if it was viewed as a public service, not a business.
There's plenty of places where even an optimised solution would mean cars aren't needed.