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Originally Posted by Mr K
Genuine question. If there was cheap. reliable public transport, would you use it?
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I've always used public transport where possible but for most people, the fares are too high, a lot of the time the buses don't go where you want them to go and lack of frequency is often a problem outside the big cities.
Even people around my neighbourhood (including me with my concessionary pass) who catch buses regularly have two cars.
Unless you have cheap or free bus travel, an intricate web of routes and frequent services, people are not going to ditch their cars. There simply isn't the funding to enable such a socialist Utopia and so it's not going to happen.