In most of the capitalist world, transit is getting increasingly defunded and low quality, except high speed rail in some countries (which idk if counts as transit)
Really is a negative feedback loop… Quality(/availability) is shit so less people use public transport - so they either make tickets more expensive or reduce availability - which in turn reduces the amount of people using it - etc
Even taking into account a little traffic I’d still spend 2x times the amount of time going to work compared to going by car. Not to mention it’d cost about 20-30% of my net wage to do so daily.
Not how it works. Public transport isn’t dying due to lack of demand, it’s dying because of neoliberal policy and budget cuts in government spending are the norm for the past 30 years. As an example, in Tallinn public transport is free to use for all residents. 90% of residents agree that this is a good thing. Their government is going to drop it anyway.
Even taking into account a little traffic I’d still spend 2x times the amount of time going to work compared to going by car. Not to mention it’d cost about 20-30% of my net wage to do so daily.
So you agree that public transit is underfunded and shitty? That was exactly my point.
Capitalism.
Other countries have capitalism and they have transit.
In most of the capitalist world, transit is getting increasingly defunded and low quality, except high speed rail in some countries (which idk if counts as transit)
Really is a negative feedback loop… Quality(/availability) is shit so less people use public transport - so they either make tickets more expensive or reduce availability - which in turn reduces the amount of people using it - etc
Even taking into account a little traffic I’d still spend 2x times the amount of time going to work compared to going by car. Not to mention it’d cost about 20-30% of my net wage to do so daily.
Not how it works. Public transport isn’t dying due to lack of demand, it’s dying because of neoliberal policy and budget cuts in government spending are the norm for the past 30 years. As an example, in Tallinn public transport is free to use for all residents. 90% of residents agree that this is a good thing. Their government is going to drop it anyway.
So you agree that public transit is underfunded and shitty? That was exactly my point.