• LOGIC💣@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 days ago

    That’s weird. I thought it was everyone driving their own cars all the time that was a huge waste of resources.

    • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      13 days ago

      With work hours being what they are, you don’t have set times where everyone needs to be at work or go home at the same time. It rural areas, having public transport so often that “you don’t need to check a schedule” would mean empty busses and trails most of the time.

      For me, I can tell that I have lived in a city where this was the case. It was great! But where I live now, this isn’t possible. The narrative now is, that people should move into towns, to make this more effective. There is a very fine balance between effectiveness though, and industrialization of living conditions.

      • LOGIC💣@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        13 days ago

        The meme is specifically about cities, so when you said “thinly populated,” that should have been about thinly populated areas of cities.

        If you’re actually talking about rural areas and not cities, then you’d want to start with buses. Speaking of living in places with good public transit, I used to live in Japan, and I was surprised by how much buses get used in rural areas. They can get pretty full.