Keen to find out what’s the most pressing transit issues in your city?

If there were one thing that you could change about the cycling or transit infrastructure in the city you live in, what would it be?

In Sydney of late, the reliability of the train network has definitely been an issue. Also, some outer suburban Western Sydney bus services run half hourly or worse during the morning and evening peak, with no nearby rail alternative nearby.

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    In my small local city there is a train station with decent connections to other larger cities.

    The problem is that the main bus stop is near the high street, about 5-10 minuets walk away from the train station. This makes it much harder to catch buses too/from the train station.

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    I can get around fine without bike lanes everywhere but the busy intersections with multiple turn lanes force me to salmon or go on the sidewalk and that’s always a stressful part of my commute

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    2 years ago

    There’s no safe way to bike to O’Hare airport. 6 lane highways, no sidewalks, nowhere to lock up.

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    In Ulsan, the only means of public transport available is bus, with intervals from 20 minutes to an hour and 20 minutes.

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      It’s a little surprising that Ulsan doesn’t have any metro or light rail, given it’s a metro area of over 1 million people. Is it on the drawing board over there? What’s the official reason the city hasn’t built any rail?

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        A local friend told me it’s because the ground is not stable enough for underground metro; but given the bus interval I think there’s not much demand for public transport to begin with. That may have something to do with Ulsan having the world’s largest car factory, sparse population distribution and cheap pricing for second hand car (around a month of student salary for a decent one).

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    I live in a suburb of Washington DC. Like most small US cities, mine was built around a stroad. My city’s elected officials care a great deal about biking infrastructure, but since the stroad cutting our town in half, along which is one of the only places where mixed use development is allowed by the state and county, is a state road, the city can do little but beg for them to fix it.

    The state has finally decided to add bike gutters along the road, but with the car traffic speed and density that we have, I doubt that will have a great impact by itself. If I could change one thing, it would be to give that state road a diet and add protected bike lanes.

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    Vancouver, Canada: Isolated pockets of bike lanes. Not like a neighborhood or an urban center where you can reasonably do everything you need within it, literally a single block of new development will have a dutch-style paved bike lane but you’re out to sea if you go beyond it.

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    Portland’s bike infrastructure is very good for a North American city. The problem is that it gets a bit spotty traveling further out. There also isn’t infrastructure if you want to bike outside of the city. Want to hop on your bike and go do some camping? Have fun going on tight rural highways with high speeds! And even in the metro area, it’s really just the urban core and surrounding residential areas that have good coverage.

    COVID-19 has been devastating to transit service. There are fewer riders and the transit agency, Trimet, has struggled to find drivers. Before, late night service especially was poor, with even “frequent service” reduced to hourly by around 10, and overnight service being non-existent. Now on top of that, the worsening homelessness crisis and opioid epidemic has led to people smoking fentanyl on light rail trains. A lot of passengers just don’t feel entirely safe.

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    First off: They exist only in the elite areas. Second: Everyone uses it to ride and park their SUVs, even the police itself.

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    In SEQ the biggest thing seems to be when the services stop. I used to live near-ish to a train station on the Gold Coast, and buses would not go between the suburb centre (and my place) and the station after about 5.45pm til the next morning. In Brisbane buses are much better and we got buses every 10-15 minutes during the day which was great, but then nothing between 11pm and 6am. Even 1 per hour at night would’ve been nice. I don’t understand how we can drop from 6 buses per hour to no buses for 7 hours straight. Buses and trams work much better than trains in SEQ, and cycling can be pretty dangerous if you have to go on any main roads. Not to mention the extremely long traffic light waiting times. But we are allowed to cycle on footpaths, so it can be an ok way of getting around if you don’t mind the hills and going a bit slow on the path.

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      The last time I was up there, the light rail had made a huge difference to transport on the Gold Coast.

      Unfortunately, at this stage, it doesn’t connect with the train line at the south end, doesn’t connect to the airport, doesn’t connect with the stadia, and doesn’t extend to the theme parks.

      Hopefully it will see some extensions with the Olympics coming.

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        The light rail has been great, but it also will only ever serve the east of the city (mainly tourists and wealthier people) even after all of the potential extensions being discussed. The west will need more buses, but there is unfortunately no political glory in announcing more buses

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          Have there been bus network upgrades as the light rail has rolled out? Or has the focus just been on the shiny new trams?