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[–] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You're never going to convince most people to give up the comfort of their own personal box. I say that as someone that has spent 7 years as a bus driver in seattle. I'd love to see more public transit use but even I prefer taking my car to work and I ride for free as an employee lol.

I even have access to a route that is basically a straight shot to work but it's still over double the time of driving myself because it has to make stops along the way , and you have to deal with the people that even though they ride the bus every single day and they know that they're going to need their money and they see the bus coming from like a block away will not try to dig their money out of their pockets until they are standing in front of the driver so it takes forever.

And then you have to deal with other people's possible smells, you can't just like blast your music and sing along with it, you don't get to control what the temperature is so if you have a driver that likes the bus to be 75 and that makes you uncomfortable well that's just too bad for you. Etcetc

And that's the part that people forget when they are complaining about cars is they only address the traffic and other problems that are genuine but they basically just tell people suck it up princess about the genuine Comfort differences same with people that tell you to bike everywhere I don't want to bike in the rain or the snow. I am fully aware that rain gear exists that doesn't make it comfortable for me i love my bike but only in like fall weather where it's cool out so I don't overheat but not raining or snowy or anything like that lol

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago

have you, like, ever seen cities outside of america? How many people do you think own a car in tokyo?