> "That is one bus, even a tiny city will need more than 100 buses to just provide bad service, and would need 5-10 times as many just to give good service"
You say that as if it's an unthinkable impossibility. As of 2017 London had 8,600 busses carrying 6.5M passengers every day. Yes a big city needs a lot of buses, so they have a lot of buses. No problem. What would it cost if there were no buses and 6.5M more car journeys every day? And the roads and parking spaces for - what - 1M+ more cars to account for that?
What financial cost to the city for roads and infrastructure and traffic lights and signs and maintenance, what financial cost to the people needing cars, what time cost of humans stuck in traffic, what health cost of less exercise, what health cost of pollution, what accident cost?
You say that as if it's an unthinkable impossibility. As of 2017 London had 8,600 busses carrying 6.5M passengers every day. Yes a big city needs a lot of buses, so they have a lot of buses. No problem. What would it cost if there were no buses and 6.5M more car journeys every day? And the roads and parking spaces for - what - 1M+ more cars to account for that?
What financial cost to the city for roads and infrastructure and traffic lights and signs and maintenance, what financial cost to the people needing cars, what time cost of humans stuck in traffic, what health cost of less exercise, what health cost of pollution, what accident cost?