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 is used, but public transportation still has it’s limits. Even if you’re giving free rides and directing everything outbound, you can still only fit so many passengers in a train car or a bus. And you only have so many roads & tracks. In fact “sending more trains” could actually make the situation worse by causing traffic jams.
Also, in relation to a hurricane, air travel is usually suspeded because it’s extreemly dangerous to fly in those conditions, even before the storm actually gets there.
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