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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I would imagine it depends on the area, if you mean something that is going to be making return trips for people then it wouldn’t make sense. As the only transit which would be able to get people out of an area completely would be a bus, they would end up with no way to get back as roadways often become one way to get people out as fast as possible. They will get used, similar to the airlines, less like transit and more like life rafts.
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It is. It’s the only efficient way to evacuate people. Source: being evacuated during wars in 90s. Florida is just extremely car centric.
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