Because busses are inconvenient, they don't come when you need it and if you do overtime, you#re fucked.

like the railroads here

same story

And in some cases you drive for hours to get home when the drive is like 15-30min

ppl dont trust them because theyre always late

i worked at an office about 45km from home. had to pay 5€ a day in "city passage fees"

that is true

9 mins from my place to my former job

with the car

If i take the tram

Busses are just inconvenient....

it takes me 53mins

i had 2 hours with public transport and 35-45min with car...

Which method do u think i will pick

Exactly!

and here tha last bus goes like 5pm to my place from "the city"...

that is exactly the problem here

and they drive like every 2h or so

connections to industrial sites are horrible

so this tax is punishing working ppl

I must admit that i am a politician my self, local level though.
It is seriously really hard to work towards downsizing goverment and it is very unpopular amongst both the people and the goverment it self

who wouldve thought that people are not in favor of putting themselves out of a job

its why it always keeps growin

untill public calls a halt to it

If that is ever going to happen on a large scale enough to give any real results :/

anyhow i need to hit the bed now.
It has been a pleasure to chat with you

allright have a good night

@Stefan Payne where tf do you live where buses drive every 2 hours with the last one being at 5pm?

that's any rural city

on weekends maybe

i used to live in small places like that a lot

getting anywhere without a car was a pain

I mean... i get the 2 hours... but 5pm?

i don't know. i guess that is weird

even in the areas with least buses, the last one would usually be as late as 11 pm

except weekends

Some counties have really bad bus service.

Ah, also, some swap routes, so one route will go morning till 5 and then it's another route that goes a slightly different set of stops.

I think I had a route similar to that in Oregon.

Where i grew up we had buses every 5-10 minutes from 5am to 10pm and then every 20 minutes or so after that. They increased that to every 3 minutes by now.

Where i live now the infrequent buses are hourly until 9pm.