Peasant wagons
An ongoing conversation between Tom (rabid public transport fan and car-hater) and me (thoroughly loves driving; buses smell of piss) over on Aurlog, prompted by some anti-car activists’ distortion of facts. Or, y‘know, a pressure group’s vital unearthing of some of the hideous truths about car driving that the petrolhead lobby try to conceal. Depends which side of the fence you’re on, I suppose…
For some reason almost no one ever dies on buses. Safest of all the options.
But public transit really does suck quite a bit. Trains are obscenely expensive to build and operate, buses are crappy and slower than traffic. Bikes are scary. I don’t have a car, so it’s not that I’m a car-lover.
I’d really like to see PRT take off.
4 hours later