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Originally Posted by wong21fr
^Don't forget, buses are also evil. Everyone should ride bikes and there should be trams on every street.
And people shouldn't reproduce and put all of their love and time into discovering trendy restaurant, posting on Instrgram, riding a fixie, all while tending to their shit-beasts.
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Jesus Christ, ya'll bitter. Keep them stereotypes coming, I love boiling down complicated and nuanced opinions or life philosophies into pseudo-funny soundbites that make it easy to marginalize a group of people. So edgy.
Back to the actual debate - bus routes need to be significantly optimized to begin with. We have too many bus stops that are too close to each other - half a mile between stops should be enough, rather than stopping every 400 feet. They should also follow major streets, rather than going deeply into neighborhoods that are already close to bus stops on main streets.
I don't mind taking a bus, if it adds a couple of minutes to my commute. The issue is that if the bus is 3 minutes late and I miss the light rail, it would add another 12 minutes to my commute. If both the buses and the light rail were much more frequent, the system would be more convenient.
I lived in a city with the population of 250,000 in Slovakia. The buses were so frequent, that one was never really worried when the next one is coming, as it was most like within the next 5 minutes. Same for trams. The lack of frequency (and I understand that frequency = a whole lot of money) is part of the issue.