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>>amathe+(OP)
Unpopular opinion: public transport fundamentally sucks.

I've spent vast amounts of time commuting on public transport and by car.

You can't pay me to ever get on a bus again.

And not just in the US/Canada either. Even in the dense cities of Europe, public transportation << car transport. No bus can ever beat the comfort and convenience of putting a large amount of shopping / luggage in the back, getting in your private bubble, and going directly to your destination.

Then there's the people you meet on public transport. 99 / 100 of them are just people who want to go from A to B. But then there are the trouble-makers and weirdos. Do you really want to be stuck on a bus or train, straining under shopping bags or holiday luggage, with some unpredictable idiot eyeing you?

Some people, like newyorker.com, have a platonic ideal of public transport where we are all happily whisked from A to B on hyper-efficient and advanced vehicles, perhaps humming kumbaya to ourselves. But the reality is that it will always be inconvenient and slow - at best - and dangerous and super unpleasant in reality.

The one instance where public transport works well is when you want to travel 5-10 blocks, there's a lot of traffic, and you are carrying nothing, and there just so happens to be a subway going the right way.

The real way forward is to have electric cars, nuclear power plants, remote work, and maybe this new Musk tunnel thing.

>>FredPr+7C2
When you go shopping bulky items you are even encouraged not to take public transportation. It makes it impractical for every one, the buyer and people they are sharing public transportation with. Using a car (or having things delivered to you when it applies) is much more practical, but most people don't go shopping or travel with luggage every day.

> The one instance where public transport works well is when you want to travel 5-10 blocks, there's a lot of traffic, and you are carrying nothing, and there just so happens to be a subway going the right way.

This really depends on each region/city. Cities like Paris or Munich have a very dense network of public transportation - Even getting from point A in city center to point B in a 30km away suburb can be easier using public transportation.

>>kamoto+ZD2
Buses have cavernous storage spaces beneath the passenger floor, atleast here in finland. You can fit practically as many bags as you manage to carry in there.

Here's an example: https://arpeco.fi/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20191231_143830... Can you see those big hatches? They're almost the depth of the bus