It's pure fantasy to think public transit can replace all/most car trips in American cities, even in most of SF.
It's not just a matter of "fix service", it's you need to completely rebuild the city with 5-10x the population density.
It's not just a matter of "fix service", it's you need to completely rebuild the city with 5-10x the population density.
There are even some suburbs full of single family homes, with yards, which still have buses every 8 minutes all day long, and long-distance commuter train service every 20 minutes.
Yes the US needs more density for this to be feasible. But San Francisco isn’t that far off on the density that it would needs
Also, SF is still pretty unique compared to most American cities. So you might be able to do this stuff in SF, but not so much in places like Houston.
Which..is exactly what is going to happen [1]?
[1] https://www.californiacitynews.org/2021/09/california-says-g...