I dunno where you’re from, but here (Germany) I couldn’t imagine how that could be done.
Haven’t used public transport for 30yrs now but it already was horribly overcrowded back then.
Nowadays population rose tremendously, cars got more expensive, and in the near future (20-40yrs tops) the poorer ones won’t even be able to drive a car anymore at all.
Yet public transport remained practically untouched since then. How would these numbers fit into “less people per sqm”?
In rush hours I remember trams every 5mins, still looking like the famous Tokyo subway.
And busses in an even higher frequency would clog the whole cities. Trams and trains OK, they got their own lane.
Which can drastically clog the network so nothing arrives on time.
Not sure which is worse, overcrowded or unpredictable schedule.
In defence of the argument. It is noteworthy how quickly we have a bunch of presumably autistic people brainstorming on how to solve the problem the second the problem is posed.
Same where I live in Scandinavia. Apart from massive investments in public transit, creating massive unused overhead capacity most of the time, I don’t think it’s possible. But I do take public transport to/from work and the worst thing, by far is sitting/standing shoulder-to-shoulder I absolutely hate it.
Trains actually running on time would be a nice second thing to fix, I don’t think I have ever taken public transit on my commute that wasn’t delayed.
Oh yes, I remember that crowdiness. I fucking hated it, made me really aggressive if people get too near me (would make a good swede HM? 😆).
But I guess it’s a European problem in general. Limited space, growing population, more need to get from a to b for more people…
Our local train-company (It’s state run and only one) is known for being rarely on time. A running gag so to say.
I dunno where you’re from, but here (Germany) I couldn’t imagine how that could be done. Haven’t used public transport for 30yrs now but it already was horribly overcrowded back then. Nowadays population rose tremendously, cars got more expensive, and in the near future (20-40yrs tops) the poorer ones won’t even be able to drive a car anymore at all.
Yet public transport remained practically untouched since then. How would these numbers fit into “less people per sqm”?
Higher frequency. So more trains/busses on the same route.
In rush hours I remember trams every 5mins, still looking like the famous Tokyo subway. And busses in an even higher frequency would clog the whole cities. Trams and trains OK, they got their own lane.
Which can drastically clog the network so nothing arrives on time.
Not sure which is worse, overcrowded or unpredictable schedule.
In defence of the argument. It is noteworthy how quickly we have a bunch of presumably autistic people brainstorming on how to solve the problem the second the problem is posed.
Same where I live in Scandinavia. Apart from massive investments in public transit, creating massive unused overhead capacity most of the time, I don’t think it’s possible. But I do take public transport to/from work and the worst thing, by far is sitting/standing shoulder-to-shoulder I absolutely hate it.
Trains actually running on time would be a nice second thing to fix, I don’t think I have ever taken public transit on my commute that wasn’t delayed.
Oh yes, I remember that crowdiness. I fucking hated it, made me really aggressive if people get too near me (would make a good swede HM? 😆). But I guess it’s a European problem in general. Limited space, growing population, more need to get from a to b for more people…
Our local train-company (It’s state run and only one) is known for being rarely on time. A running gag so to say.