Public transportation is, for a great many people, a low cost method of getting from one place to another. In the US, there is a mentality of the importance of having one’s own car for the freedom to go from one place to another when needed. Many people are will to front the cost of driving, parking, mostly (I think) because of the justification that public transportation would take too long, and the time is too important to waste waiting for the bus.
This ignores the fact that you can get a lot more done sitting on a bus than you can driving a car, because driving requires your attention. In fact, I’m typing this while riding on a bus (when else would I have time to write?). But I digress….
Proposed solution:
Give public buses the same right of way that one gives to ambulances and police cars. When the bus comes, you have to pull over. You have to stop for the bus, it does not have to stop for you.
With that, buses become not only cost effective, but more efficient than driving one’s self. Rush hour need only apply to people who insist on the freedom of sitting in traffic with everyone else who insists on the freedom of sitting in traffic.
Buses could also use more comfortable seats.
And schedules that don’t require a decoder ring to comprehend.
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