(04-03-2021, 09:16 PM)jeffster Wrote: Funny how you say that I have no imagination, but you can't even give a single example how you can make transit effective, nor how much it would cost -- and inexpensive for the end user, for example, me taking the family down to Grimsby. for example, to visit family.
That's quite the goalpost moving. We've gone from "convenient to get to a vaccination appointment" to "convenient to get a family to a small town" . This discussion didn't start with getting to Grimsby, it started with getting between Kitchener and Cambridge.
No one here is arguing that cars should be banned. It's likely that for rural trips they'll continue to be the most efficient way to get places. But 95% trips are between urban locations, and there it's nothing but a lack of imagination on your part that prevents you from seeing how transit could be more convenient.
People have outlined situations where transit is more convenient than driving (e.g. just about anywhere in Japan). No one is arguing that the current GRT service is competitive, we're arguing that in the future, with changes to our urban form and improvements to our transit system, urban trips could be convenient by transit.
If all you want to do is engage is goalpost moving and strawman-ing, there's not point in debating you. We get it, you hate transit and aren't open to changing your mind. But stop jumping in to conversations on transit with bad faith arguments.