| I don't see how that's about jobs - that's an artifact of a bad public transport system. In London I could drive or get public transport. Depending on where I go, one could be faster or slower. Generally, for non-radial journeys further out, driving will be faster. But in terms of reliability/variance the public transport option will almost always be better for journeys of longer than ten minutes or so. Buses have bus lanes - aside from the small delay of people getting on or off, they strictly cannot suffer more variance than a car because they have priority over cars for some subsection of the route. Trains... well, trains run on tracks. There are service interruptions, sure, but those are far less frequent than traffic jams or accidents on the road or whatever. (I'm talking here about all journeys. Commuting, not commuting, whatever.) The stereotypical rural (or bad city urban) bus that comes every 20-30 minutes with no real adherence to any timetable, no live arrivals information or anything else sours people on public transport. |