My pithy response is the same as people who have told me what to do when I try and advocate for transit. “Move somewhere else.”
replyI don’t find these problems unsolvable. We spend over $200 billion on roads a year. That’s almost $75bn more than the CA high speed rail. That’s project has its own problems but local buses and street cars and road diets would cost minuscule fractions of that number and improve conditions and options for nearly everyone.
Cars are clearly not a perfect solution. They are expensive and unsafe. But for some reason transit and buses have to be the perfect solution for everyone upon immediate delivery just to get the tiniest fraction of funding.
Good public transit is more than just the infrastructure. It's also the law and order, which is not an easy political problem to fix.
replyIt’s actually quite easy. RTD in the front range in Colorado has drastically reduced issues on buses and the light rail the past couple of years. It wasn’t that hard.
replyI take various forms of transit regularly and I’ve never had an issue more noteworthy than any interaction I’ve had in a car.