In German cities like Berlin you can't miss the subway, because there is one every 3 minutes. So you don't even need a car. I was quite shocked about your reaction about the bus every 5 minutes.

I´m an Austrian and at the countryside the buses drive with an average of every 30 minutes, at the city it's about every 5 to 10 minutes. It´is pretty shocking for me how messed up your system over there is.

Using public transportation in bigger European Cities - in my case Vienna - it is exactly like you say at 9:27 . You do not pay attention to any schedule during daytime, as the next bus/tram/subway will come within minutes all over the city - even in suburbs. You can expect regional service during daytime with bus/train in and out of the the city every 30 minutes. For Vienna public transportation is mostly the fastest way to get from A to B in the city.

I think Ryan thinks transportation costs are low, because like most drivers, he just includes gas/petrol use. He does not include cost of vehicle, depreciation of that vehicle, any taxes on that vehicle and any repairs/servicing of that vehicle. When you include EVERY cost of a car, you see you are paying a LOT! And if American's keep their love of cars, then forget about fixing the climate crisis, with all that entails!

I lived in London for 20 years, never used my car for local transit, it was purely for weekends away and visiting friends and family in the rest of the country, 9 times out of 10 the battery would be flat when I wanted to use it because it had been sitting unused for weeks. Bus, Tube and Train got me to and from work every day, without fail. Public transport seems to work in European cities, where the population density is high, it sort of works. I now live in a rural area in Cornwall, a county at the south west tip of the UK, buses run twice a day and the nearest bus stop is a couple of miles away, I use my car....

Many people don't factor in the cost of their car loan, value depreciation, car insurance, repairs and parking to the cost of owning a car. Lack of public transport also means disabled and others who can't use a car are isolated, and restricted in where they can live or work.

The city where I live (Tampere, Finland) has a new tram system. It was first suggested in 1907 but it took until 2016 for the city council to make the final decision about it. There were always people who were convinced that it would be a bad idea, mainly because of the high cost. Then it took several years to build it and half of the city was an absolute mess during that time. The tram was finally taken into use in August 2021. And, well.... it is wonderful. It currently has only two routes but they both go every 3 minutes. It's the most convenient public transportation that I've ever used. Yeah, it was expensive (330 million eur so far, the last I heard about it) but totally worth it. They are planning to extend it. One thing that I have noticed is that I've seen quite a few people on a motorized wheelchair using the tram by themselves. Before, it has theoretically been possible for wheelchairs to go in the bus, but I haven't really seen them there often. Probably because it's just too difficult and there's not enough room for them. Buses are supposed to have room for two prams/strollers but there's quite often three of them crammed in there already, so probably people in wheelchairs don't even bother to try to get in a bus. But the new trams have a HUGE space reserved for all these things on wheels, so that there always seems to be room for more. Probably the tram system has given a whole new level of freedom to people who need a wheelchair.

I'm still amazed every time, how much north America just doesn't even considers walking and bicycles. I live in Europe and visited many countries, in and around any middle size or bigger city having a car is more a hinderance then an advantage. Public transport is a bit annoying sometimes sure, but a stop is always in max. 5 minutes of a walking distance and the vehicles arrive in 5-10 minutes max. Underground trains, busses, tram you name it, it's everywhere. So strange to see that this is not the norm for so many other people.

I live in England. If you was to Google the bus map for my city. You will most would think it was the road map for the entire city. Simple because there is that many different bus routes in my city. We have over 50 individual bus routes in my city 😉

Driving more than 45 minutes constitutes "travel" in Belgium. you'd nearly take an overnight bag for that :D ( though admittedly it takes that long to get across the city by car due to congestion. ) My commute is 6 minutes.

I'm from Germany and living in a "big" city of 200.000 residents. Tram comes every 5 minutes Bus comes every 15 minutes S-Bahn (city train) comes every 10minutes And there's always busses who drive at night too

This is one of the thingsI miss about Europe….public transportation. I would take the train to Glasgow or Edinburgh without issues. I could read, relax, and listen to music.

OMG bro, you spend more than 13 hours a week just driving 😳. You're losing a lot of free/resting time and quality of live inside your car, man. That sounds crazy to me.

I live in Berlin and I basically never have to look up when the next train comes. It will always come very soon. Also, we have a circle line that goes around the city permanently. Very helpful.

Hello Ryan, in Germany time between two departures is 10 minutes for bus, 10-15 minutes for tram, 30-60minutes for train on a small to medium sized city and surroundings. And we currently discuss about uniforming prices via Deutschland-Ticket for 49€ a month (covering all public transportation services). The 19€ ticket in the past was a huge success. A bus station is within 5 minutes walk in most cases.

The reason why is because it takes too long to say "public transportation" that's why we shortened it to "public transport" in the UK 😆

This might surprise you a bit, but the part about frequency of service is something we Europeans had to learn as well. It's just we're further in this process than north America is. I for example live in Germany near the city of Karlsruhe. After the car became popular, many German railways became unpopular and the national railway operator of Germany reduced the frequency of service, which in turn meant that fewer people used the train, which meant that service was reduced further and so on. Many lines were on the verge of closure or were closed. In my region, the turning point came when the AVG, the streetcar operator of Karlsruhe, started to run on mainlines. They bought out many regional rail lines, electrified them and ran modern light rail vehicles every half an hour. This is what boosted ridership exponentially...

I couldn't cope living so far away from things! Shops, buses, trains, doctors, dentist, vet, beach, taxis, restaurants, leisure centre, parks, markets, cinema, hospital, pubs, clubs, all of those are no further than 5-15 minutes from me! (England) And all around me is farmland, countryside, rolling hills, woodland and historic buildings and places. I'd go mad stuck out in nowhere! I've never owned a car, never needed to! They take so much money to upkeep, maintain, service, tax, insure and fill up. It's cheaper for me to hop in a taxi to my town centre and back, than own a car, drive it and pay to park it! Work out daily or weekly what all your car costs are, and I bet you'd be horrified! Bearing in mind some days you're not actually going anywhere but still paying. I've had driving lessons but decided I preferred to have the cash in my pocket rather than throw it into a car. Public transport is there in all weathers, you don't have to panic if your car won't start then how will you get to work, someone else has to sort out paperwork, phone calls etc related to insurance or repairs, someone else is dealing with road rage and idiots who shouldn't be on the road in the first place. Sounds like an expensive extra stress I don't need in my life!

In Poznań (a city in Poland of over 600K) busses and trams come every ~2 minutes to a the city center bus / tram stop . On the city outskirts at worst every 20 minutes (like really low population neighborhoods), but usually its like every 10 minutes. Agglomeration bus lines come every 20 - 30 minutes (the Poznań agglomeration has a population of over 1 million people). On top of that the towns within the Poznań agglomeration have also their very own public transit. Some time ago I heard from Americans the argument that you cant do that in the US because the cities are to big which is a really stupid argument, because as with everything the economy of scale kicks in. In other words. The bigger a city is the lower the cost per individual (citizen) bus / tram / metro ride will be.

I live in Tasmania and if you have any more then 6 cars in front of you at a set of lights , you are in a traffic jam. When I moved here 20 years ago I was pulled over by the police because apparently I broke the law over 10 time in 10 minutes. He told me I was driving too close to the car in front of me and didn’t indicate for enough time while changing lanes ect ect and asked me why I drove that way.I told him that I was from Sydney and he told me well you are in Tasmania now so slow the heck down.

I live right on the edge of a city in the UK. I can catch a bus every 5 minutes to the centre. There are muliple other buses in walking distance that go to nearby towns, villages, hospitals and industrial areas. Not as frequent but still available.

I read somewhere that the level of public transport infrastructure speaks about the city and the society. A really rich city is the one where also rich people choose the public transport over a car. Public transport (if done well) makes commuting to work much faster and much much much cheaper than driving a car. After seeing this I will never complain about our public transport again. Looks like heaven😂

I live in the UK and work in my city centre... I have a bus every 20 minutes that runs along the end of my road... And another route every 15 minutes that's a quarter mile away (my local one forks off the other one) A day ticket costs me £4. Less if I buy a week or month pass If I want to drive I can, but I pay £7.95 per day to park near work!

Ye, I'm Australian, and we complain about our public transport all the time ... but we still use it. Because, while they may not keep time as well as some places, at least they're there and they work.

As a German I don't drive at all. I don't even have a drivers license. I never needed to. Our busses go every ten minutes in out smallish town. Yes, when we do a big grocery shopping tour twice a month, we use our small car and sometimesfor holidays and festivals, when we have much luggage. But that's about it. Why would I drive, when I can just walk 2 min, get into the bus, play on my phone on the bus and be at my destination in 15-20 minutes without doing anything. Ok, maybe I need to walk another 1-2 min. Driving myself, and finding a parking space is way to stressful....

It's funny that she said a long walk is a 45 min walk...that's what I do to and from work everyday 😂

That map design came from Harry Beck for the London Underground in 1933 and is used in many places around the world, Australia included. It's so easy to read.

I had to laught when you were shocked with 5 min frequency for bus. 😂 That frequency and even quicker in specific time of day is standard for heavily used lines here where I live.

But housing cost isn't just your mortgage or rent. It's also insurance (homeowners, renters), maintenance, for homeowners landscaping, furnishings, appliances. They all add up. And the cost of your car includes car payment, insurance, maintenance, gas or electricity, annual registration, vehicle inspection in some states. It's expensive to own and operate a car. I don't have one because I can't afford it on Social Security.

All you have to do is buy futuristic busses, with flashy lights,the elon-approach.

I'm Georgian (eastern Europe) and here bus arrives every 4-7 minutes, depends on route. Subway train arrives in 4 minutes.

I am a huge booster for public transportation but if you are car person it will take A LOT for you to sell your car, I do not see the point of owning a car AND taking public transportation (forget that - if you are taking a train or a bus that is not crowded, the reduction in stress dealing with traffic is a PLUS). It will take designing a really great system and marketing the heck out of it to get non-public transport people to public transport.

I'm Thai. 10 years ago I attended a seminar and stayed at a hotel in suburb Denver. The weather was nice. So I decided to walk to the restaurant, couple miles from the hotel. The experience was horrific. 🤐After a few 100 yards from the hotel, the sidewalk end. I had to walk on the glass or on the road pavement while fast cars and trucks passing by. Had to cross a few 8 lanes intersections with no cross walk sign. Made it safely to the restaurant in one piece. Uber back to the hotel though.

In 2001 USA had 5% of the world population, but USA spent 25% of all energy consumption. So in comparison an average American spent five times more energy than a man in the rest of the world.

In Rennes (big-ish French city) I rarely look at schedules because most bus lines run every 5-15 minutes, even towns a dozen km out will still see a bus every hour at least, the metro-tram is even better at 2-3min interval between trains.

I lived in London for 5 years and never needed a car, as public transport was extremely effective. Bus or underground trains came in every 3-5min. I moved to Nottingham and I can still go everywhere by bus or tram. My work is 6min driving away. If I'm in rush or the weather is too bad I take my car. Otherwise I just take the tram. If the weather is nice I just walk and never felt walking awkward. I lived in Hungary before and the same apply there too. If people want to save money they just giving up their car and they are just fine.

People who love driving should be the first to push for better public transit, it removes a lot of trafic and will make their driving more enjoyable. Even if you love driving, I doubt you are having a good time in a trafic jam.

London resident here, never even thought of buying a car.

I live in Dublin, Ireland and public transport is pretty poor here - compared to Poland where I'm from. Like in America, it's hard to get from suburb to suburb without going to city centre first. Now I work from home but before I used to drive to work (45 minutes to 1 hour one way), because going by public transport would take 2 hours!

in europe, if you're closer to the city center, you'll have buses coming by every 5 minutes. they don't all go to the same place, but if you're travelling withing the city center, most of those buses will take you where you need. when you go towards more the outskirts, rural and industrial towns is when there's less buses. towns that are on the outskirts but still heavily populated will likely have a bus that goes by every 30 minutes, the more rural, smaller towns are the ones that usually only have a bus drive by every hour

The other thing that ruins US cities is the extreme level of 'zoning' which means nobody has local shops and businesses they can walk to in a few mins every day.

One problem why USA is not value Public transportation is, how it is designed. Like seperated areas for business, living and admistration. In europe thouse areas are all mixed and by ensuring proper traffic, they increase economic effiency. So In USA no one cares if you drive 1,5 hours to work and same time to back. In europe that means wasted time, time not used effienctly.

In America, cars require twice as much space than people. Guess what is more valuable to your society.

8:48 - I am living in Czech Republic in Prague. Prague has the 5th best public transport system in the world. This is for several reasons. Only one company takes care of public transport in Prague. This means that every 1/2 year they optimize the intervals. Depending on the type of transport (Metro, Tram, Bus), the time of day and the day of the week, the intervals vary from 90 seconds (Metro)... For example, trams have intervals of 2-3 minutes during busy hours. The most common one-time ticket for 90 minutes (Passenger can freely transfer from metro to bus and tram and between lines. You just pay for the time.) and currently costs 40 CZK (~1.69 EUR / ~1.84 USD). The annual pass will then cost 3650 CZK (~154.60 EUR / ~168.17 USD). Children under 15 and seniors over 65 ride for free. Even the amusement park carousel is more expensive and takes only 3-5 minutes… Does anyone know a cheaper attraction than the Prague Integrated Transport? 😉

I live in Hong Kong, and in my place, the busiest bus or metro routes serve every 2-3 minutes. In the suburbs, the number drop to 10-20 minutes for buses, and 6-8 minutes for metro, but that is still very efficient and convenient. We have an almost 98% population coverage for bus and metro (meaning 98% of people would get on a bus or metro 15 minutes from their home or workplace). That is why only around 10% of residents here own a car. It's simply more cost-effective and efficient to use public transport.

I don't know why, but I thought that this video would compare transit in US with transit in Europe, but I was wrong. Here in Madrid we got 13 subway lines with 310 stations, but also 10,884 bus stops in 235 lines with 2095 buses circulating at any moment within the city limits. And I'm *NOT* counting the buses that enter surrounding municipalities!

The whole problem with the system is the concept of having suburbs. That is not a thing in for example Germany, we mostly have mixed zoning, residential zones are mixed with business zones, so naturally there was always a need for transit between several parts of the city and not just a city center. Suburbs without any businesses don't really exist here other than classic villages. But even with suburbs I just don't get why the suburbs don't have a connection to like a light rail line or a subway connection at a central suburb area point with busses connecting to it? It seems like the suburbs were planned while completely ignoring city transportation concepts

bruh im 21 years old and i dont even need a car because public transport will get me everywhere

I was in Chicago a few year ago and quickly learned to ignore public transportation altogether. It never connected me to where I wanted to go. Walking was faster.

I Live in cologne and I never check when my next bus or subway leaves, I just go to the station. I’ll have to wait like 2-8 minutes at most (unless it’s a Sunday). Now the DB on the other hand… that’s my Nemesis

The difference, again, is cultural. The USA is about the individual (esp. the Republicans) and in Europe (esp. the EU) it is about mutuality. Public transport is not about a commercial enterprise but a public service. With planning and initial subsidy it can be run at a profit but that all requires political, long term, commitment. BTW the roads that private vehicles run on, largely financed by taxes. That also is a political act, just a hidden subsidy.

I’ve just become a bus driver in Yorkshire- it’s a rewarding but hard job- it’s not driving a 10 tonne vehicle, dealing with a few idiot customers it’s more learning the routes- 15 different routes in 4 weeks is very stressful plus the ticket machine and keeping to a strict timetable- I have a whole new respect for bus drivers

The trouble with the kind of issue where people are not using public transport enough and their cars too much is that it takes a huge leap of faith in order to fix with someone who has loads of money to invest. In an environment where the public transport system is run by and relies on investments from a private company, there is practically no chance of it happening. Expanding either the train or bus networks to make suberb to suberb travel feasable would need millions, if not billions of dollars. Without a way to prove how much return they would get for their investment and how long it would take to start making a profit a private company can never justify spending that amount of cash.

Am 42 and only got a car 5 years ago. I walk 10 minutes to work. I use the car at weekends for trips or maybe shopping that's all. Everything else is walk or cycle

I used public transport solely in Boston, it’s pretty good

Transit is so bad where I live in Ohio. Nearly 1 million people in the city Proper and 2.2 million in the metro area, yet we have not 1 single passenger rail service. Not commuter rail, not light rail, not a metro, and not even Amtrak runs through it. Car dependency is a big issue: 1/100 people in the US Will die from a car accident, or 50k people a year. If the US only had the same rates of car accidents as a European nation such as the UK, we’d be saving at least 20k people a year from premature death. That money saved Just from 20k people a year not dying could literally build a Japan sized HSR network at US labor costs for the California HSR (which is absurdly high by global standards) every Single Year.

IN the UK where I live a Metro runs 3mins away from my front door that passes every 3 mins, A bus service passes every 15 mins that connects to different estates , a Bus rservice about 5 mins walk away connects me to Large cities and that runs every 3 mins, we have a rail station about 20 mins walk away and an International Airport 30 mins away linked by Train and bus, I live in the UK.

Gas is more expensive in Europe, but distances are a whole lot shorter. When I cycled across the country, I made the observation - "no sooner are you out of one village, you can see the next one in the horizon".

You being shocked by "5 minutes? You can just miss the bus and take the next one!" Seems funny, but in reality it isn't. Where i live, subways/busses/trams come every 3-4min, and we are so used to it that i plan to travel with exactly those Intervalls - when i miss one, i am still 3-4min late. Just like missing a hourly bus in the US, but on a smaller scale

Living in Budapest, to go to work, I need a 10 minutes suburb train which comes every 5 minutes, then another 10 minutes tram ride which comes in every 2-4 minutes (busiest tram line in the world), sometimes, even more, are waiting at the station, so yeah, here missing a bus/tram/train in the city isn't a problem

There are a lot of benefits of providing a walkable, bikeable and public transit friendly kind of town planning. (1) Kids can learn to be independent earlier instead of relying on parents to get around (2) You don't have to learn to drive that early on - which means a lot less accidents because teens DUI (3) Businesses that thrive in these areas make the place less miserable and people find activities to chill out (4) Businesses provide tax revenues (5) Everyone can save money but not being forced to own a car I lived in a the outskirts of my city, with multi-household townhouse like buidings - there is not only the safety in numbers, but because of good public transport, I don't need a car!

When I was still living in a german city, the busses came every few minutes - at day! At night or at the weekend, the schedule changed, of course. I just googled the schedule of the bus station I used to use! The buses are coming at 10,33 - 10,35 - 10,36 - 10,43 - 10,48 o'clock and so on! So you have to wait 5 minutes max to catch a bus downtown. The prices to use the busses are fair. If you are a child, pupil, student, etc. it's completly free to use. Me, who get's no ticket from the company, would have to pay around 70€ a month to use all public transportations - incl. subway, city trains, etc.

In Germany, you in cities you can expect every 15 Minutes a bus or tram. All over the city. If you have subway or other trains you have mostly every 10 minutes a train in average. Up from may we will have a ticket will cost 49€ per month and you can take all local trains, busses, trams etc in the whole country.

I live in a village outside a small town in Wales. My village gets a bus every 30 minutes, the town (only ten minutes walk away) gets a bus every ten minutes.

Ukraine here, it's normal here for every route to have 15 mins wait time and even with those times all busses are full. Each stop services up to 15 routes. Its normal to see 5+ buses at any given time. Buses run up to midnight.

I am living in Hamburg, Germany, for most of German cities it's common to have bus driving between 2-10 min, depending on the traffic time and area. Even on the country side you still have busses driving at least once in 2h from Morning to evening to connect you with the next bigger village, where you can find a train to the NEXT bigger city, where busses will drive more time again... so I don't see why it's so hard for you americans to develop a working bus traffic...

Here in residential area of Helsinki buses go every 5 minutes and the monthly cost for unlimited use of the public transportation (buses, trains, metro, trams) is roughly 70 euros per month. No need for a car.

That was a great video, Ryan. Coming from Chicago, while the transportation system needs to improve, I could get around via public transportation whether in city or suburb. I would have used it more if it was like we heard about in Canada. I traveled 110 miles round-trip each day from Waukegan to Chicago and back. I think the people have just given up hoping for something better, sadly. I don't think that the desire isn't there. Here, in Indianapolis, partly because I am in an Electric Wheelchair, I can't get anywhere. My only transportation is provided by Medicaid, and that is only for medical appointments and medications. I think that if people could know what we just learned about the Canadian system that we just learned about, a movement might just be doable, especially with Secretary Buttigieg over the Department of Transportation. Peace

Just the other day I've complained to a colleague that a particular subway line that I use for my commute only runs every 15 minutes

French national here, I'm living near Bordeaux and the most I will have to spend commuting is roughly 45 mins. Otherwise I will use my 2 wheels option. Which reduce my commute time down to 20 mins max.

Pre-COVID Chicago had many bus routes where buses would pass stops every 15 minutes many car owners would often take the bus or train simply because it is more efficient than walking several blocks to the street you had to park your car at.

Yes in Tallinn get free ride on public transport if You are Tallinn citizen , but other pay only 33 % because taxes cover / dotatsion of 67 % . = month card of Tallinn buses 45 euro ( 48.15 usd ) .

I have a 10minute walk from my home to 2 different train stations, in my small town. And I have a trainride of 20minutes to a big city, which drives every 20minutes. We have a busroute that goes in a circle around the town in both directions which drives every 10minutes. I love our infrastructure.

I live in a village 15km(10miles) away from the next city with 90k inhabitants which has 11 City bus lines that run every 20 minutes and which is supported by the country bus network. My village is reachable from 5am to 11pm with the main line which goes hourly and every 30 minutes in the rush hour. This is also backed by 2 lines that go every 2 hours

In London.. The buses are every 6 to 12 minutes and the tubes are every 3 minutes.. I don't own a car ..none of my family own a car..We don't need one

In Madrid subway (Metro) many times you see a train arriving and you think I don't wanna walk faster I will take the next, that probably arrives 1 or 2 minutes later

When the bus comes every 5 minutes you can get to the bus stop, notice it's full when it's peak hours. Then choose to wait for the next bus and be comfortable or get on the crowded bus and get to your destination 5 minutes sooner.

I live about 2 miles from the city centre of Prague, a city which has about 1,3 million inhabitants. Under my windows operate trams or streetcars or LRTs (however you want), each can carry more passengers than two articulated city buses. In rush hours here go at least 30 trams per hour in one direction. Every two minutes. 🤣

A bus every 10-15 minutes that goes from the suburb to downtown in major French city is the usual. From suburb to suburb, it's less frequent but still exist.

Our buses run about every 3 minutes. If you miss one, you often can see the next one coming in the distance. At 3 o'clock in the morning, they're every 15 minutes (on some routes every 30).

Public transport in the Us when available is also very dirty and unsafe. It should be the easiest and most comfortable way of transport or else people will not use it. It’s absolutely insane that people think driving 5min to get somewhere is acceptable in any way.

A bus every 30 minutes is very common here in the Netherlands, and it brings you to wherever you need to go

BTW. Gas is cheaper in the US than Canada. I live in downtown Toronto and walk or use transit more often than not. It's not doable to do that if you live in the suburbs where a car is really necessary.

In Hamburg Germany the bus Line 5 at the Rushhour, there is a bus every minute. At least 90 seconds

I'm from England and currently live in a medium sized town in East Lancashire and I've always been a non-driver throughout my entire life. I often jokingly refer to myself as a professional pedestrian when it comes to me travelling relatively short distances. As I've been retired for about 4 and a half years I hold a concessionary travel pass which entitles me to free bus travel not just locally in the town where I live but throughout the whole of England. This same pass isn't valid outside of England, i.e. in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland but I don't see any problem with that if I wanted to travel to the other parts of the U.K. if I chose to and had to pay for my journeys beyond any of the borders. The only stipulation is that I travel on what the issuing authority ( Lancashire County Council ) calls 'local buses' - to simplify this for you it means that I can catch one bus to any destination to the next town or city and I don't have to pay anything for travelling on it. Just as an example I could travel from where I live to Manchester, the closest big city, and from there use any bus from there to another destination....just so long as I only use one bus at a time. As the buses between where I live and Manchester are direct, very comfortable and luxurious, have Wifi, recharging points for my devices and run regularly throughout the whole day ( every half hour or so ) then I'd be a fool not to take advantage of them, wouldn't I? Alternatively if I wanted to travel to Yorkshire or further north, south, east or west of where I live then it's the same thing just so long as I stick to catching one bus at a time throughout the whole of my journey, i.e. go from one town or city to the next and just change buses along the way....that's no big deal to me especially when all of my bus journeys are free of charge. The daftest part about our concessionary pass system is that they're available to everyone over retirement age - including car drivers - and each person can either have a pass like my own that can only be used on buses or they can opt to have exactly the same pass that can only be used on trains. Additionally where I live we have what's known as an interchange which is comprised of a bus station on the ground floor and a train station on the next level up so there's no problem with any of us accessing either buses or trains, is there?

When I lived in London I never owned a car. Now I live in the sticks, I still don't. The busses aren't great tbh. We get 1 an hour, but there's a train station in the next town, so it isn't too bad.

In The Netherlands, small villages (with like a few hundred residents) even have a bus stop to take them to the nearest train station. To be fair, traveling by car over medium long distances (5-100 miles) is probably still faster. Over short distances (under 5 miles) a bicycle is probably the fastest mode of transport, and over 100 miles the train usually outperforms the car. But the difference between a car and public transport is minimal, and you can reach nearly every corner of our country with public transport. A car is also more expensive. You really don't need a car here...

3 weeks ago or so, it cost $6.65 for a gal of gas. They pay by the liter in Canada.

The movie Roger Rabbit's back story is how GM and a tire company (don't remember if it was Good Year or someone else) bought the street cars system in LA and shut it down. They were taken to anti-trust court and fined just $1. The American way of separating you from your money at it's best.

I get a feeling that you missed a bit of the point in the video. Americans don't want to get rid of their cars, news flash, people in Europe do not want to get rid of their cars either, but there is a big difference. In Europe they do not always need their cars to get were they want to, so they use the public transport, then at the weekend they may want to go somewhere, where it can be diffcult to get to like a holiday home in the country, to visit family and carry stuff with them and so on. During the working week they'll used public transport, and leave the car at home, thereby saving money on fuel, wear and tear on the car, also less stress from not having to sit in long traffic que's. In the US you have been told over the last 50 years or more that you need a car by lobbyists, who also give money to politicians, to repeat the same thing and make sure good public transport does not happen. Americans and Canadians come over to Europe and one of the 1st things they do is buy a car, then if they live there for a few years find that they hardly use it, and some end up selling their cars, as they find it an extra expense they do need. So if a city in the US put in a good public transport system, you'd find people will start to use it, and leave the cars at home. It's not a choice of one or the other, it's giving you choice to have both and use what you want, when you want to. So you can have your big car, but you do not have to use it.

There are zero busses where I live. None, at all, nada. If you don't have a car you can't get around.

In Finland fares in most big cities cover 50% of public transportation costs.

In uk, accomodation costs of any kind, are the most expensive outgoings. Food and transport are next - the order of these two is dependant on personal circumstances.

1. In San Francisco, pedestrians cross streets diagonally as often as straight across. 2) Foreign currency feels heavier and stronger, like strong fabric. Wallets are designed to hold big bills. 3) In the US, many Americans can’t afford cars and insurance, so they have to live in dirty, over-whelmed cities which do have buses, and it’s the only way people get to work despite the long waits and hideous bus conditions. As a returned expat I am embarrassed. Nothing seems to be geared to serve ALL citizens 4) My boyfriend, a scientist from Holland, ice skates in winter to get to work (everyone does) across frozen ponds. In warmer months, everyone walks or bicycles. Bikes don’t really belong to anyone, so you’re likely not to get the same bike for the ride home. The taxes are a wee high, but the government focuses on communities and people, rather than corporations. The vibe is often genial, laid back, and happy! Some even survive without McDonalds. : o ) Bit long. Sorry. Cheers!

9:20 yeah, in Europe we don't check when the bus is going to come because there is always one coming lol

Driving an hour and thirty minutes to work and then the same back sound insane to me. All that waisted time! Living in Strasbourg France, it takes me 15 min (4min walking, 6-8 min tram, 4min walking ). And when I was living further away the 40 min commute was bothering me so much that i moved. And yes, public transit needs to be convenient enough or it's completely waisted. Most routes here have a bus every 10 min, and the main tram lines have a tram every 3-5 min. 2 out of 3 of my colleagues come to work using transit.

If your commute is 70 miles each way, you're spending about $92/day just to commute. The average driving cost is $0.655/mi in 2022 calculations. The GSA calculates this every year based on average mileage accrued expenses. (Gas, depreciation, maintenance, etc.) That doesn't include any car payments or insurance costs.

Well, as the here very well known Austrian university professor for public sience Hermann Knoflacher said many decades ago: "Wer Straßen sät, wird Verkehr ernten" which means: "If you sow roads, you will reap car traffic" BUT: this holds true also the other way round: if you sow bike lanes, footpaths, public transport, you will reap people who use them. So I'm confident, that people (not all, of course) do not have to be persueded, they WILL use these other options, if they are built. The cost for an annual pass for all public transport in Vienna is € 365 per year/€ 1 per day (Underground, Busses, tram, city trains... everything).

I live in a large metropolitan area on the West Coast of Canada. Sold the car in 95 as I live on a bus route. The commute to work took an hour or more each way but I did homework, read, listened to music, chatted to other regulars. When I want to go elsewhere in the region, I can take the Skytrain (subway), Seabus(yes, really 3 vessels crossing between downtown Vancouver across the inlet to North Vancouver) as well as busses. We keep expanding our services. Not perfect and still have much to work on given we are in a sprawling region(1,111 sq miles plus more outlying towns. Additionally, we have a large ferry system. By using transit, I saved money and have a nice portfolio and can rent a car if needed. Some parts of Canada are reducing their services due to money issues but they are going to lose in the near and long term.

I live in a city of about 600k, with about 1.2 million when including the surrounding and we have 8 tram and about 50 bus lines plus trains, The trams and buses run about every 5-10 minutes, the trains hourly during rush hour in the morning and evening, and a bit less outside of that. Our trams go similar to that Chicago network, but the buses cross connect between the tram lines. Visiting a certain friend would take me about 40 mins going with the tram through the center and about 10 mins with the bus. And again, the bus goes every 10 minutes.