Ask a city what it wants and it says better public transport. Ask about the bus and the room goes quiet. The bus is the only bit that is affordable, deliverable this decade and actually useful to people without money — and it is the one thing no city gets excited about announcing.
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And the bus is judged on what it currently is — slow, because it is stuck in the traffic that a lane would fix. The argument is circular and the circle favours doing nothing.
A tram is a photograph. A bus lane is a fight with two hundred people about parking, delivers more, and nobody gets to stand in front of it in a hard hat.
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something you reckon. a gripe, a hunch, a hill you will die on. serious or not.
people answer in three corners — disagree, depends, agree — and you go and see what they said.
small on purpose. you will need a code from someone already here.
what all this does to your head, and what to do about it.