It takes me 2 hours to travel by bus where it takes me 30 minutes by car in my city. I can’t afford to drive so I cycle. Badly planned routes by for profit bus companies is not how to create a useful transit service.
The real kicker is that the same company does the buses in the neighboring cities with more social clout and they are really good and win awards. People with cars there bus most of the time. They know how to make a good bus network. They choose not to. Our city has more people, even, but they alienated the drivers so thoroughly, it would take a generation of completely overhauled good service to rebuild a trusting ridership base beyond the desperately poor. They’ve built themselves this super expensive problem just to save a few bucks 40 years ago.
It takes me 2 hours to travel by bus where it takes me 30 minutes by car in my city. I can’t afford to drive so I cycle. Badly planned routes by for profit bus companies is not how to create a useful transit service.
The real kicker is that the same company does the buses in the neighboring cities with more social clout and they are really good and win awards. People with cars there bus most of the time. They know how to make a good bus network. They choose not to. Our city has more people, even, but they alienated the drivers so thoroughly, it would take a generation of completely overhauled good service to rebuild a trusting ridership base beyond the desperately poor. They’ve built themselves this super expensive problem just to save a few bucks 40 years ago.