>>1191274Anti-transiters haven’t grasped two major things, because they haven’t thought it through (you can see the evidence in their posts like this
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1. They for some reason think when you run a bus route you’re taking away people’s cars. I don’t know who told them that but they sperg out about it.
The bus routes are good because they offer another form of transit. The key to a healthy city is always “offer as many transportation options as possible”. When you run a bus route you’re giving another option, you’re not taking away anyone’s options. And for pic related there are private mass transit companies all over the world.
2. Development patterns follow infrastructure/transportation patterns. When you build freeways, you get sprawl, and need to build more freeways. When you build transit, you get denser development which supports more transit. If you have a sprawled city like Orlando, ridership isn’t going to be high at first. But since Orlando’s growing, and getting denser, transit will continually get more use and continually get better funding and continually become more cost-effective. Transportation and development form a feedback loop.
The difference is, highways are more expensive and ruinproperty values, where transit is more feasible and helps property values.
