alt Hacker News> Buses will suck
Buses are only workable because of cars. We build roads for cars first and trucks second. Buses are at most 3rd in the list and getting to use them is an incidental side benefit.
No one builds enough roads for buses. They have to use the roads built for cars.
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lazyasciiart • last Thursday at 7:29 PM
Many places build dedicated bus lanes, and a few places build roads specifically dedicated to buses, like the Queensland Busway system
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Horse-drawn busses predate private automobiles by almost a hundred years.[0] The movement to pave roads was started by bicyclists decades before the rise of the automobile.[1] Cars usurped preexisting infrastructure and drove out other road users, like trolleybusses and streetcars.
We have so thoroughly remade society in the service of cars that it can be difficult to recognize any possible alternative.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsebus
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Roads_Movement