• Grandpa_garbagio [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      SE Virginia has a metro area of almost 2 million people who all drive to work as there is next to no public transit. There is a bus line and it is insanely unreliable, and that is it.

      I’ve lived in multiple metro areas of hundreds of thousands of people with NO public transit.

      I now live in Philly and this is the first time I’ve had the option of not using a car.

    • bpm@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      My 25 minute commute by car would be 3 hours on public transport, across 4 buses. American cities were expressly designed around the automobile, and are nearly impossible to navigate otherwise.