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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Things like providing water and food can be quickly arranged for a surprise emergency. But you can’t quickly build a new train line for an emergency. Public transit takes planning and years of infrastructure. So the idea that politics doesn’t matter because the government does things it normally wouldn’t like provide food doesn’t work here. You can temporarily do an out of character thing and support a food giveaway just this once, but “just this once” doesn’t work for turning around years of not wanting public transit infrastructure.
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