I notice a recurring problem in the USA where transit is approached from an implicitly car-oriented mindset.
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If any part of the fractal is missing or underdeveloped, all the rest of it suffers. This is a big problem in the USA.
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The top level of the public transit fractal is air travel. We manage this pretty well, no issues here.
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Below air travel, though, is a huge "missing middle;" several tiers of transportation are neglected or completely absent.
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Local bus travel is the bottom level of the public transit fractal, and here the USA at least makes an effort.
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But local transit isn't much use if it doesn't feed into regional transit, etc, all the way up to global transit. Every level counts.
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(but US assumption is the missing middle is CARS)
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sure--part of that mentality...failure to realize that cars and transit are incompatible modes
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the transit equivalent of a car is probably a taxi--and it's not exactly cheap
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