I think that in general any personal motorized vehicle is becoming more and more absurd. There is no way to the future with this concept. The future by definition passes through public transport in conditions and individual rental transport. In view of what a car costs and the expenses it entails in insurance, taxes, maintenance, parking, etc. it is becoming a luxury that has nothing to do with its usefulness of having a 1-2 ton thing to move a 75kg ass.
In cities, maybe.
Most people also want to be able to leave the city sometimes.
TBH in places where public transport is sufficient, most people don’t use cars - they don’t need to.
To go on vacation or go on an excursion, I prefer to go by train, bus or plane, before getting into traffic jams on the highways, apart from that it is cheaper. And more comfortable. Apart from arriving rested and I don’t need 2 days to recover from the car trip. I even have the possibility, if I prefer to go by car, for whatever reason, to rent it for this ocassion, which is also much cheaper than a car of my own.
Yes, everybody does!
Most people do not drive because they enjoy sitting in a car in traffic jams. Most people don’t enjoy driving at all. They do it because there is no realistic alternative.
Even in places I’ve lived which claim to be “eco” or whatever, the public transport is overcrowded, unreliable, and does not reach enough places.
We blame drivers for driving, when we should be blaming transport planners for not providing enough public transport.
We blame drivers for driving, when we should be blaming transport planners for not providing enough public transport.
That’s a vicious circle, people need cars because the transport offer is insufficient, taxpayers don’t want to give more money for transport because most people don’t use them as they already have cars.
A transport planner could argue that alright. He doesn’t have enough money or power or time to do his job properly, or he has other pressures on him. He doesn’t have enough training. There could be plenty of excuses, and even legitimate ones.
I do have higher expectations from transport/road planners to fix the transport/road mess, than from transport/road users.
Are you claiming the point is that there are people whose job is to plan the public transportation, who have enough money to have more of it working but who purposefully decide not to? Why would they do that?
No of course not.
I’ve never worked in one of those offices. I don’t know why things are so often badly done. I’d guess they are like everyone else. They do things a certain way out of habit, and don’t think enough about why they are doing things that way, or whether that approach is appropriate to each job.
But I don’t know. I’m like everyone else. I just see the results when they bollox their job up.
