I live in a town of seven and a half thousand people, we get a single decker bus once every thirty minutes Mon-Sat and hourly on Sunday, they're going to have to lay on a LOT more to make many converts around here.
Maybe you could use larger vehicles than standard taxis and see if any of the people are going in the same direction at the same sort of time. Bound to work out cheaper and safer.
What percentage of the population is dependant on them? Probably less than 20% right? So a bus every six minutes or buses every twelve minutes on two routes once private cars are removed.
That's your problem they're not. In a city of millions there's bound to be lots of people want to go the same place as you, to the point you can have buses, trains and trams. Here not so much. We get a bus every half hour that follows one route through the town. In fact since they are going in alternate directions it would be more accurate to say we get one bus an hour with a choice of two destinations (a small city and a large town) you can get other buses onwards but journey times just go up and up.
So jobs and start times, shop locations and opening times etc. are randomly distributed throughout the countryside? Or is it the case that the majority of people are using cars to do the same or similar journeys individually?
Without going outside, you may know the whole world.
You think that everyone leads the exact same life, and all go shopping at the exact same time on the same day?
I think that only a relatively small percentage of people worldwide have a lot of choice in when and where they're travelling and that for most people most of the time, travel is an expense and a liability. You're a very lucky person living where you do and solutions that you see as rights are not attainable for the majority of the world's population.
Thank you for making my point. So now we agree that it's unfeasible to expect everyone to travel at the same time, and that people do need to travel, it's surely obvious that buses aren't the answer in rural areas?
Most of the planet may not be cities but over three quarters of the world population is urban. Also, define rural. Is a town of seven thousand rural? Because the vast majority of the part of the UK population defined as rural live in settlements of several thousand people. Enough to run a fairly decent public transport system when it's one that everyone uses.
I'd say several thousand people is nowhere near enough to run a viable public transport system, especially now with the advent of EVs.
What have EVs got to do with it? Current batteries are unsustainable and the vast majority of the power comes from fossil fuels.
Emissions per mile per person. Significantly lower than those of an empty bus.
Not lower than an electric bus. And far from emission free. Tyre particles still flying about killing people in town and fossil fuel emissions still contributing to global warming. Not currently much of a solution at all.
Sadly that's only a small proportion of UK child asthma deaths. Non exhaust emissions are a genuine health hazard and contribute more to air pollution than exhaust emissions.
In central London?
Or central Birmingham, Bradford, Stoke or Manchester then. Most people live in cities. Poor people more so. Poor people also tend to live in the most polluted parts of cities.
There's a difference between a town of seven and a half thousand and a village or farm in the middle of know where. With the former there will almost certainly be a large number of people heading to a nearby town of similar or larger size at least twice a day.
I think they're a bit generous with the easily there for the five miles time.Even if not a bus route that goes from a-d and passes rural area b and c frequently enough means people will get on the bus, especially young people.
The figures for what type of car journeys people take are quite impressive though.
Active travel: increasing levels of walking and cycling in England - Transport Committee - House of Commons
publications.parliament.uk
Even if not a bus route that goes from a-d and passes rural area b and c frequently enough means people will get on the bus, especially young people.
The figures for what type of car journeys people take are quite impressive though.
Active travel: increasing levels of walking and cycling in England - Transport Committee - House of Commons
