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Re:The United States needs fewer bus stops by JoshTriplett on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @07:08PM (#47159974)
> Point to point transportation is often slower and less convenient if buses and public transit is done right.

Only if you're also intentionally making point-to-point worse.

Note that I'm not comparing to "get in your own car and drive", which has the disadvantage of having to park. I'm comparing the ideal taxi-shaped thing to the ideal bus-and-tram-and-train-shaped thing.

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Re:The United States needs fewer bus stops by xmprt on Thursday February 26, 2026 @01:04PM (#47169654)
> Only if you're also intentionally making point-to-point worse

I feel like you missed my last paragraph. If public transit is better then more people would use it and there would be fewer cars on the road. Can you imagine how terrible point-to-point traffic in SF would be if everyone was driving to work instead of relying on Caltrain or BART?

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Re:The United States needs fewer bus stops by JoshTriplett on Thursday February 26, 2026 @03:03PM (#47171289)
No, I didn't miss it. I'm saying that public transit can be better than it currently is, but it would take much more to make it better than point-to-point transit.
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