US Drivers Begin to Balk at Record Gas Prices

I tried to do all of that, got rid of my car a couple years ago, live in one of the best cities in the US for public transit outside of NYC, and am constantly frustrated. I'm still glad I don't have a car right now but trying to figure out how to make it more pleasant. I sacrificed on neighborhoods I wanted to live in to be near a train stop and grocery. There aren't many apartments outside of a handful that don't require a car. My city doesn't give accurate transit information so when I'm waiting for a bus that should come every 15-30 minutes sometimes I wait up to an hour because a bus was cancelled with no indication so I can change my plans. Escalators and elevators in public transit stations are broke 50% of the time it seems, sometimes making it necessary to cross streets to go to another station entrance, which starts to matter when you need multiple connections. City has parking spots everywhere, not hard to find except central downtown, but cars also park in bike lanes and on sidewalks. There is no enforcement of bike lanes, in fact motorcycle cops speed down them. People blame bikers for traffic problems, but never people speeding or blowing red lights in their cars, no enforcement of that either.

> Bike murders

Why is it so hard for people to get along? Drivers can just look both ways before blowing red lights and stop signs and not tailgate cyclists and reduce their murders ten-fold. And cyclists could be aware that they're required by law to be as far to the right of the road as is safe and to stop at signs and lights to drop the animosity against them ten-fold. Grr.

> Bus transfers

It's a bloody nightmare. As a student I had free bussing in a pretty well-covered city. It was literally faster to walk the whole distance. I'd ride the bus if it dropped below -20F or the sidewalks weren't plowed yet, but otherwise it wasn't worth it even for free.

Car dependency has resulted in a system that creates no other options.

The only hope is that gas keeps getting more and more expensive and politicians start asking real questions about what changes need to be made so that Americans have more options available other than giving more and more money to the oil companies.

The dirty little secret in England is that the government derives tremendous tax revenue out of gasoline taxes. Actually all of the European governments depend that revenue. What happens when EV’s take over?