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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The biggest problem is that people want to take stuff with them. They want to take a weeks worth of clothes per person. They want to take their pets. They want to take irreplaceable things like their wedding album.
Public transit works for commuting because people are mostly just bringing a laptop with them. It doesn’t work for emergencies because people are bringing a LOT with them. You can’t fit 50 people on a bus *and* all their stuff.
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