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good bus systems never get the credit they deservehttps://twitter.com/TransitCenter/status/1181231974737952768 …

Yeah. The bus system here is so insanely slow and dingy but there are cities in Germany where the bus is actually a convenient way to travel and guess what: it's substantially less stigmatized and feels much safer. Meanwhile small shitty LR is just as bad as slow busses.

anyone who builds a LR system at grade downtown or runs it primarily on highway or old freight ROWs instead to built up areas should be shot

Despite complaints Seattle buses are generally really good and I seriously think locals don't know how good they have it. What's almost universally awful in the US is intercity buses

For intercity I feel like trains make more sense anyway. Too bad about US commuter rail lol! Bernie 2020 everyone

it does depend on geography and ridership but yeah. like we have a decent suburban bus network but riding a bus to e.g. the olympic peninsula is a one-bus-a-day thing which virtually nobody uses except people going to the airport from there