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Originally Posted by accord1999
And still LA County has the second highest bus ridership service in the US. The people quoted were ok with bus service until their commute times or lack of reliability increased due to:
1) Increased housing cost forcing them to move to a new area where the service isn't as good in getting them to/from their job
2) Change in job where the service isn't as good in getting them to/from their home.
3) Cuts in services forced by poor decisions made by transit
Things that are all possible in any city but made much less painful by car because its better speed and flexibility.
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Or, and hear me out on this CRAZY idea, we could design our cities with active mobility and transit orientation in mind instead of clinging to the 1950s suburban car-centric model. We spent the last 70+ years building every city in North America around the private automobile, so why is anyone surprised that this has become the preferred method of transportation for most people? People talk about a fictitious "war on cars" and "social engineering" when anyone proposes any other urban planning model where the car isn't king, but nobody ever points out that there has already been a war on pedestrians, cyclists, and transit riders and North Americans have been socially-engineered into either switching to a car-centered lifestyle or paying a huge premium in housing costs to live in a community where owning a car isn't necessary.