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Supermarket plastic bag charge has led to 98% drop in use in England, data shows
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2023
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I see your from feddit.nl, which makes your comment make sense, but you really need to realize that in many places in the world, the way the town's and cities were built, it's just impossible to implement public transit, and biking isn't really an alternative.
Or places where public transit is a thing, it is really inconvenient.
My girlfriend can drive to work in 30 minutes. Taking the bus takes her over an hour. So instead of a 1 hour drive each day, she's on the bus for 2.5 hours + waiting + the inconvenience of the buses not being on schedule + the buses shutting down at midnight
It's great if you can commit an extra 1.5 hours every day just to sit on a bus, but she can't. Not to mention that's just going to work. If she needed to stop by for groceries, pet food, doctors appointments, etc, she's adding an insane amount of time in between by having to switch buses.
I know cars are bad, but going to work + running errands legit wastes a good 3+ hours vs taking a car. That's a massive chunk of wasted time. She has shit she needs to do at home, she can't spend a quarter of her day sitting on public transit.
Imagine if the public transport system wasn’t rubbish and your girlfriend could travel in the same 30 minutes?
Public transport isn’t the problem, it’s the solution
Okay. I'll tell my city to just tear down half of it so they can build a better system.
Like I said, not all towns and cities were designed for it. It's not something you can just plop in centuries down the road. The world doesn't work that way.
Any new development should have public transit in mind. Old development can't really be retrofitted. It's like you missed my entire comment.
In many places the cities were retrofitted for car centric infrastructure already, why couldnt it happen again?
Great. And again, not ALL cities can do that.