I am not sure if you get what I mean, I am talking about making the daily necessary travel public. If you wanna go visit someplace 50+ miles away that I hope you dont work at cause thats a long way to go everyday then you could use private means of transportation

but making people use it for grocery shopping and banking?

those are essential

Yeah the more essential stuff

we'd have to raise taxes in order to fund extra busing, SEPTA here in my town already has 15 buses, and nobody uses them

because our cars are more fuel efficient

now than ever before

the buses we have are from '06

and use so much fuel

I think you got a demand problem then

we also have a supply issue

I bet it is also expensive to use those buses?

in what sense?

More expensive than using your car

yes

tax wise and time wise

they're also not efficient

Yeah you need to bring down the prices, you need to modernize it and have a supply that is sufficient in that it minimizes time loss to the extent that people start using it

And you need it to be fairly reliable

We can't

I don't think you understand

we;re fairly spaced out

we don't live in proximity to essential services like you might think, and we can't lower prices

it's more efficient, less expensive, and less harmful on the environment to use personal cars in the states

we can't modernize the buses either

they're Greyhounds

they're built to last

There is still a constant demand to travel those distances to essential services, the problem is the non-modernized fleet of buses that are inefficient. The problem is the pricing and the time gaps

there are no stops to those destinations

we have around 4 grocers around here

multiple banks

and more restaurants that imaginable

you simply cannot modernize the fleet, and reroute the buses to cover everything

You can build bus stops, that isnt the problem

the problem is the modernization can't be paid for, we don't have state budgets for township transport

as we will never need it

it may work in Sweden, but not here

there will never be demand, we'd spend so much to get so little payoff

we'd be taxing people at even more than we already do, which is a fuck ton

specifically in my area

I do not see why it wouldnt work over there, the only issue you seem to have is demand because of the low quality and supply aswell as relatively high pricing