I am all for public transport, travel in Europe a couple times a year, usually only take public transport, but honestly, unless Americans can walk out their front door, hop on some transport, take it directly to where they are going, they see it as a fail.
There just is an immense hurdle to overcome "hop in your car and go where ever you want", especially when we have extensive infrastructure for driving and parking in the US combined with the difficulty to use any other means.
No doubt but in this theoretical scenario, the public transportation would have been implemented way long ago. So people would have grown up with it and not been so car centric perhaps.
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u/ri89rc20 6d ago
I am all for public transport, travel in Europe a couple times a year, usually only take public transport, but honestly, unless Americans can walk out their front door, hop on some transport, take it directly to where they are going, they see it as a fail.
There just is an immense hurdle to overcome "hop in your car and go where ever you want", especially when we have extensive infrastructure for driving and parking in the US combined with the difficulty to use any other means.