If So Many People Support Mass Transit, Why Do So Few Ride? (2014)

Re:If So Many People Support Mass Transit, Why Do So Few Rid... by dllthomas on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @10:02PM (#10350442)

If you drive everywhere, and everywhere you go has convenient parking, that'll be the case.

I find that often the best my car can offer is to take me from where I might be (home) to somewhere in the general area I want to go (where I have to pay for parking, if I can even find it), marginally faster than the bus and often slower than BART (unless traffic is clear). If I've walked to any of the many attractive destinations within 20 minutes of my apartment, it's then substantially faster to get on the bus at any of several nearby stops than to return home to get my car. (Generally, the need to return to where I parked is something that I find quite inconvenient in situations where interesting destinations are dense.)

Of course, circumstances differ.

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Re:If So Many People Support Mass Transit, Why Do So Few Rid... by marknutter on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @10:22PM (#10350542)

If you live in SF or NY, you're exempt from the conversation.

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Re:If So Many People Support Mass Transit, Why Do So Few Rid... by dllthomas on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @11:48PM (#10350807)

I live in Oakland and currently work in SF; I grew up in Santa Cruz, and spent years in Ann Arbor. In all these places, I found many trips more convenient by public transit than by car (in no case was that all; currently it's close). I certainly recognize there are places where public transit is even worse, and even in these places there are people for whom it works out less.

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