Has that got anything to do with whether I need a car or a bus?

Yeah we don’t have trucks here. Except for a few industrial people so you’re not making sense.

Hands up anyone who thinks my ancestors had public transport?!

Nah, lifestyle is well suited to the area.

We have roads here older than every American country and traditions even older.

The land and the people are one.

I agree.

Rural public transport could absolutely be way better, especially if it was viewed as a public service, not a business.

There’s plenty of places where even an optimised solution would mean cars aren’t needed.

That’s very true.

I think it’s a failure of imagination that the people running things believe public transport should turn a profit.

If it’s run well, the economic benefits cover the costs indirectly.

And still, there will be places where it isn’t the right answer, that an optimised and popular public transport system can not cover enough for people to be done with cars.

Utter tripe.

Where I live it’s dozens of little villages scattered about here and there, with four sizable towns.

Weaving public transport through all of those places is impractical.

I can’t function using public transport that’ll take me an hour or two to get between appointments in different places when it’s a fifteen minute drive.

To get close to that you need so many buses running empty and so many routes it’s insane.

Maybe let local people decide what’s right for them instead of making blanket proclamations for everyone and every place?