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Originally Posted by Daruma
I know that for certain rural areas its really difficult - I am just meaning to give people a perspective - especially people that live in the cities in the US - which is in the hundreds of millions - they need to gain some perspective of the world and how its possible and in fact enjoyable to take public transportation..
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My city has 100K people and public transit wouldn't even work there. It's just too spread out. I can't take a bus anywhere and get more than one thing done. Let alone in a reasonable amount of time. We don't have these downtowns. 100K people and no downtown.
The people in citites in Europe with 100K people aren't much different in terms of who has a means of transportation. They just don't have to use them as much because everything can be done in one area. They all drive to the downtown, but then just park the car and walk. They also only live 5 minutes away from the downtown. I was with friends in their cities (~130K people) and we had to take their cars to the downtown. Once we were there though, we could do everything and just walked.
I can do that too, the only problem is that the closest downtown is 30 minutes away by car on the expressway going 70-80 mph.
The only places that public transit really shines are in major metropolitian areas like Paris. The the rail systems are great as well.