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[–] 404@lemmy.zip 36 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

OK so imagine this: a place where public transport is effective, highly valued and prioritised, and runs 24/7, and where people in need (poor, sick, unemployed, elderly, etc) get a free transit card so they can go to healthcare visits, look for jobs further away from where they live if there aren't any nearby, visit friends and family etc without worrying about the transit costs.

Is that not worth aiming for? Worth building? Compared to cars, there's all of the benefits and none of the drawbacks.

Now imagine you live in a place like that and someone replies to you online, saying basically "you're romanticising, I don't have good public transport so I don't care for it, and I'd rather be stuck in a traffic jam than in a train delay anyway". Really?