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Originally Posted by ssiguy
Those frequencies are horrible but unfortunately common in the US.
How rapid is the rapid transit when you have to wait for it for 20 minutes? In most places with 4 million people outside the US, those would be lousy frequencies for an average local bus. This is made worse by the fact that US cities tend to have huge freeways networks and more importantly many freeways that go right thru the heart of the downtown so cars have a huge time savings advantage.
In the US cars and gas are very cheap and the effect of Uber and Lyft is much higher than in other countries because they are competing with vastly superior transit systems and service and they allow Americans to avoid using transit due to the negative stigma attached to it. The world views transit as an essential service while the vast majority of Americans view it as a social service. Most Americans would rather be caught walking into a porn shop than boarding a bus.
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You are mistaken it’s not that people are embarrassed to ride the bus, it’s usually that the city busses are gross, late, unreliable, and full of incredibly undesirable people. I took a city bus to work for nearly a year and it was a horrific expieirence of crime, homeless people and unreliable operation.