When everyone has to use it, all of a sudden, everyone becomes invested in improving it.
> unsafe
Driving is unsafe. ~40,000 people die while driving in the US every year, and many more are seriously injured.
Public transit is so much safer, it's not even in the same ballpark.
It's safer because it goes nowhere in the first place. I can't even believe you guys are even trying to compare public transport which is super limited in the areas they can possibly cover (by definition, because it's made to cover denser areas), and stuff like cars which can go virtually anywhere, anytime, in pretty much any weather condition. In video games that would like comparing a rail shooter to an open world one: they are too different products and the overlap in utility is very narrow.
2. If we used cars less, there is a good chance public transport would have less of those issues you're talking about. It's a vicious circle. Urban planning has been favoring cars for a long time.
> only works at certain hours, is dirty, unsafe, and covers only a small ridiculous amount of space limited to key cities
Because most public transport sucks, is unreliable, only works at certain hours, is dirty, unsafe, and covers only a small ridiculous amount of space limited to key cities. No wonder.
The pandemic will only make public transport less desirable as well.