>>2053548>train The biggest bottle neck of train transit is frequency. example your old and illiterate grandparent needs to catch a service that due to lack of funding only operates every 30 minutes.
Also due to a lack of funding midnight service can be absolute dogshit, skewing the averages because of 5 hour detours to get to work. Instead of referring to live tracking and schedules, grandma shows up to the station 25 minutes before the train is supposed to arrive skewing the train averages. Also some transit agencies are so stupid they can't cobble together proper information on Google maps, making transit journeys longer than they have to be.
Going back to bikes, sure they may be faster than a bus, at a certain point, but with enough distance traveled the bus ends up being faster than biking.
A true transit service with grade separation, and proper frequencies (anything less than 3 minutes is a crime) may be slightly slower than a car in light traffic, especially considering things like last mile logistics, but on average it's less likely to be delayed by a significant amount than a car (given that the operating agency is competent).
Also if that study includes shit like people movers and street cars like the LA Metro's E Line it's a failed study.
But walking is healthy and transit usage naturally will require walks
Now the Bus system should be shit on if it has no ROW and double boarding, then it just means the transit agency/municipality is doing the bare minimum for transit.
