I know the easy answer is politics but it has to be more complicated that that because evacuations tend to involve other things that go against certain politics (like free food and open shelters). And even though somewhere like Florida doesn’t have tons of public buses, it would be logistically relatively easy to redirect the ones they do have plus school buses and private buses that are currently in disuse. Or for Amtrak to send extra trains down there, like cities do for sporting events. I’m seeing a lot of people online who seem like they’d be willing to jump on the first train/bus/plane to literally anywhere. What’s the logic in not making that more available as an option?
I’m using the US but I do feel like it’s not something you see even in general, at least not as much as expected.
Are there more complex reasons that I’m not considering?
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It won’t work in Florida because we don’t have a robust and effective public transportation system. On a regular day, getting to work would take me 90 minutes to travel 10 miles to my office (two buses, with up to a 20 minute wait if they are on time). This would completely break down in a situation where the system is even slightly stressed.
The current governor has also weakened public transportation system, instead shoveling highway and construction contracts to his donors. I guess the idea is to make public transportation so horrible that a massive interchange in Fruitville makes sense.
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