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Originally Posted by Lux
Why don't they have public transport in the smaller cities?
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Because our economy and whatever was built during most of this century around the fact that we have cars.
Seriously, I guess it's too expensive to have public transpo run regularly and frequently into a town with not that many people. I mean, If no one had cars, it might make more money, but -
And the nature of our economic development, etc., has become a thing where...people for miles and miles and miles around all come into the city to work. Some towns are barely self sufficient, ie, there is not as many business there that people can buy everything they want from, and not enough jobs for all the people who live in that town to work there. So they have to drive to the city. Mostly it's a suburb type thing, though. People live where it's nice, and work in the cities. it's all very retarded.
Does that clear things up a bit?
many people who work in San Francisco have at least an hour commute every morning, and some drive from 2 and 3 hours away. Some of those people could easily take public transpo, though, as we have a great system that goes really far, but for many, it's not as feasible.