• pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    And never mind the rampant spread of bedbugs and disease, being exposed to violence and sexual assault, risking being arrested simply for angering the bus driver, being made late to work or even missing it entirely because of bus breakdowns, route changes or cancellations, or any number of problems that are more easily rectified with an electric car or a bike

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        1 year ago

        Yes, they are inherent issues. You can’t control who goes on that bus and therefore can’t guarantee the safety of passengers. You can’t control whether buses break down or if the routes will change or not, so you can’t guarantee riders will get to work on time, if at all. And in many cities, bus service is so poor that jobs will not hire people who ride the bus for those reasons.

        You also can’t stop people from spreading bedbugs and disease, and we all saw how well you reacted to that during covid.

        Accept that you’re just wrong on this. No matter how much you want buses to be a viable solution, they just aren’t.

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    1 year ago

    Nice. I have to travel like 17 miles to the nearest bus station. This fixes everything! /s

    Better off with my own vehicle when it’s only like 8 miles to work. I’d be literally wasting 9 miles to the bus station and 9 miles back in my own vehicle to even get back and forth to the bus station.

    Edit: Seriously, have any of you tried traveling 17 miles to the west, only to catch a bus going 25 miles to the east, passing your own town to get to work? Then going 25 miles back, only to have to drive your own vehicle back home, because the bus don’t stop there?

    Better off just taking my own vehicle to work.