“Giving people more viable alternatives to driving means more people will choose not to drive, so there will be fewer cars on the road, reducing traffic for drivers.”
Concise, easy to understand, and accurate. I have used it at least a dozen times and it is remarkable how well it works.
Also—
“A bus is about twice as long as a car so it only needs to have four to six passengers on board to be more efficient than two cars.”
You’re right. But there are shoddy drivers [1] everywhere.
Just that when the shoddy driver is in a bus, it has a much higher impact.
Bus lanes didn’t really fix the problem here, due to them being too inconsistent. So now those lanes just tend to be the slowest lane and the busses use the faster lanes [2].
and people who are in too much of a hurry to realise they are trapping themselves ↩︎
this is not a rule thing, just happened as busses didn’t care enough about the bus lane and others went into the empty lane they saw ↩︎