Comments by "Helmuth Schultes" (@helmuthschultes9243) on "American Reacts to European Buses VS American Buses" video.

  1. Make riding a bus a miserable uncomfortable experience, and you experience very poor use of bus as a transport means. Also provide very limited route coverage, few bus stops, or poor service intervals and again very suppressed incentive to use the bus alternative to get around. Like no sidewall provided makes even walking a very poor means to travel even short and feasible distances a major problem and rarely used. Lack of regular bus services, to many and varied destinations makes bus impractical to most potential users. Few potential users, makes it impossible to grow the bus service network to be a practicle and useful service. Above all making a PROFIT running bus service becomes near impossible by lack of usage, leading to poor service provision, leading to lower usage. Low bus demand, leads to low manufacture volume and competion, leading to no bus development, leading to no advances in bus design, poor comfort, build same old rattlers over and over, in low volumes, leading to continued miserable bus ride experience, discouraging bus usage to all but no alternative users. " Chicken and egg dilemma " As far as destination served by buses, work place, factory, office blocks, residential/apartment complexes, or shopping locations, malls, shopping strip's, entertainment, and also to other transport links, trains, airports, long distance bus/coach terminals. As far as shopping malls, seem intent to be located so awkwardly out of the way so far and remote basically only car is an alternative, with acres of carparks all round. With big distances from living areas and distant separation from each other, bus services have problems providing the numerous pickup/dropoff and destination locations, with timely travel times and service intervals, again heavily impacted by low utilisation. Further shopping at malls usually means sizable quantity of stuff to carry. Buses rarely provide means to carry much beyond a smallish bag of things. Try weekly grocery shopping on current bus transport, NO WAY... Any more than by bicycle, so possible when shops and loving areas are more integrated locally like in much of Europe, not remote in centralised malls, far from home. USA has engineered its fate and dependence on private transport, not on public transport, I believe in long term major detriment to society and life in general. As current energy, 'global climate religion' crusus pushes ahead, the US public may end up paying a BIG price yet. Sadly potential social decay as appears in a number of cities even now, think of several California cities, though caused by far more than just poor public transport. BEWARE....
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