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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Public transit is usually localized, not regional. And because of Florida’s geography there is no fast way to get vehicles there other than planes. Amtrak has limited capacity, as there are only so many trains close enough to send, limited tracks create bottlenecks especially because Amtrak utilizes freight tracks and it’s also important to keep flow of good and materials in. Planes were used until the shut airports.
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