• ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    arrow-down
    7
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Good luck getting that to ever happen in the United States. Also buses would be very impractical and near impossible to cover long distances.

    Plus traffic.

    As an edit: I’m not saying that busses are bad or impractical. They’re the best form of short range public transit. I’m saying that buses in the this scenario would be extremely impractical and logistically impossible to implement.

    The people here have never driven through gridlocked rush hour traffic on the Manhattan or Brooklyn bridges, and think that a bus is going to magically make it to its destination without getting stuck for hours or chasing traffic jams on its own.

      • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        That depends heavily on the Burrough. Plus there are several spots of the Bronx and Brooklyn that are complete dead zones because the stations are in poor working class areas, and not the ultra wealthy areas in Queens and Manhattan (where surprisingly enough the stations can be beautiful and well maintained because well…. Rich people serving their own)

    • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      1 year ago

      I disagree. The best form of short range public transit is the cross breed of a streetcar and a wedge-type snowplow. Forget stopping for cars that ignore the “red light for streetcar crossing” lights, just bifurcate them and keep moving.