Have you ridden Winnipeg transit? No one who can afford a car prefers sitting in a dirty bus one row away from a guy nodding off from his near overdose. There's a reason people overwhelmingly prefer the comfort, privacy and safety of their own car.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I wrote:

We need to aggressively transition away from fossil fuel dependence. We need transit

What you're saying confirms what I am saying. Our transit systems are shit. We need better transit, and we need more transit. And we need densification (as I also wrote), so that transit is efficient and reasonable. We need ways of organizing our cities that don't make the private car to be the most obvious and comfortable option. Transit and active transportation should be the most obvious and comfortable options.

[–] LoveCanada@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I hear what you're saying but you haven't convinced me that people prefer to be in a public setting, over their own private transportation. Even if transit were clean and safe, I still want the option to drive when I want, where I want, listening to whatever I want, and picking up and dropping off whomever and whatever I want along the way. Transit will always been a poorer choice because it takes away all the freedom of driving which is why it will never be as popular.

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

Driving sucks, when you live near a bus stop or train station you dread having to drive.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It sounds like you just haven't experienced living in a place with good transit.

I'm not talking just about clean and safe. I'm talking about frequent, dense, and reliable. Good transit. In Montreal we don't even have an amazing transit system, just a decent one that covers only parts of the city, and I would never never drive to work except if I need to haul some heavy thing because who wants to deal with all that shit (traffic, parking, other drivers etc). On the regular I just hop on transit and watch youtube videos or read or whatever for 30 minutes. And that's at a place that could use a LOT (and I mean a LOT) of improvement.

"An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport." ~Enrique Penalosa

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Most of Europe and Asia would disagree with you.

[–] LoveCanada@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 days ago

Different country, different problem.