| "I'm sure you would think that the solution would be a really good public transportation with buses and trains. I'm completely sure private cars or taxies would be discarted." This is something I always wondered, WHY? Have you calculated the numbers yourself? I don't believe so. In Europe most people repeat this phrase, without knowing why, or just looking at the numbers. I was born in Madrid, It looks to me like government propaganda too. You find ads on TV that tells you something like "a bus could carry 50 people, if everybody used buses we will be saving that much". But most of the assumptions are wrong, E.g Most of the time the buses or subway are less than half empty. And when they are full, people don't want to use the services. In Madrid, subway trains are designed for 4people per square meter!!! Politicians want people to use public services(while not a single of them uses them). They want to raise taxes, people not being able to buy private cars, but giving the money to politicians in order to make big public works(and enrich themselves by the way, the bigger the amount of money they handle, the easier it is). On the other hand, moving 2 tons for every 0.1 tons person does not make sense. We need individual alternatives like electric motorbikes or something. |
Here in Barcelona, it seems that the metro starts off quiet at the ends of the line (easy to get a seat), then as you approach the city centre it fills up (difficult to get a seat near these stations). Then it starts to empty on the way back out.
Electric bikes makes sense though.