• TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip
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    5 days ago

    Because having a bus to pick up 7 people in a day is really efficient economically and environmentally…

    • gaael@lemm.ee
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      5 days ago

      Much more so than having a car-centric infrastructure. If you start cherry-picking you’ll of course find cases where a car would have been more efficient but public transportation needs to be understood as a whole.

    • DasAlbatross@lemmy.world
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      For sure. Just cruising around the countryside on the off chance that someone actually needs the bus that day. They haven’t for the past few but they have to go shopping eventually.