[richardcrossley]

If the headway between buses is greater than 15 minutes, then few people are going to chose it as their transportation option. If one bus fails to show, often enough for me not to bother and walk instead, then you have a 30 minute waiting time at an open bus stop in cold driving rain.

Now I live in Asia and the buses are extremely frequent headway is less than 10 minutes, and I have no need for a car.

[falcor84]

>Now I live in Asia and the buses are extremely frequent ...

Where in Asia? Being home to over half the world's population, it's extremely diverse and my impression is that the average Asian person had much worse access to public transport than the average UK resident.

[akgerber]

The plurality of Asians live in China which has built dozens of metros with thousands of miles of track in recent years: http://www.thatsmags.com/shenzhen/post/19044/china-s-breakne...

[robjan]

Yes, if you add China, the Four Tigers and Japan then you are already covering 1.6bn people. All of these countries/regions have fantastic public transport in the urban areas.

[akgerber]

"Frequency is freedom" is a slogan that bus consultant Jarrett Walker likes: https://humantransit.org/2011/12/how-frequent-is-freedom.htm...