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[–] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

you can't have public transit that is affordable.

Total cost of a bus is ~$122 USD/hour ($165 CAD)

A car costs $729 USD / $988 per month on average and is used 380 hours per year on average. Therefore $23 USD / $31.2 CAD per hour (no driver cost, unlike the bus).

Therefore bus costs the same to run as 5 cars. We can't afford to not have public transit.

Edit: the bus data is in USD, the car data is in CAD. I missed this and originally wrote 4 cars had the same running cost as a bus instead of 5.