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[-] raresbears@iusearchlinux.fyi 61 points 2 years ago

Swap your car or plane ride for a bus or train

Kinda hard to do when there's nowhere near enough investment in public transit

[-] grue@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago

It's not actually about the transit; it's about the zoning. Both the reason we "need" transit in the first place and the reason it's too expensive per rider to be viable is that our homes and businesses are spread too far apart.

If you're not within easy walking distance of a grocery store, your town was built wrong.

[-] raresbears@iusearchlinux.fyi 10 points 2 years ago

That too, but it's not like transit investment isn't also lacking

[-] Gabu@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

"Just one more road, bro. I swear this time it'll work out, bro. Just one more lane in that 8-lane highway, bro"

[-] Taxxor@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah where I live, there's a bus every 2 hours that needs ~30 minutes to get to where I work. If I took that, I'd have to walk an additional 15 minutes to my actual workplace and I'd still be an hour too early.
And after work, I'd have to again walk 15 minutes to the bus stop and wait another 30 minutes for the bus home.

So between leaving my house and coming back home, there'd be ~11.5 hours. When I use my car, that's ~9.5 hours.

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I literally cannot do either of these things. Haven’t ever been able to in my life. No town I have ever lived in had public transport available. Closest train station was literally a two hour walk away.

It’s a nice thought, but there isn’t enough infrastructure to play like it’s generally available.

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