(02 Aug 2022, 12:05 pm)Andreos1 wrote It's the mindset that making a car journey more difficult or slower will mean people have to switch to public transport.
And tables, titivations and paint jobs will wow those making the switch.

Of course the majority don't make the switch. Because there isn't a public transport option that meets their needs.
The very basic fundamentals of a network that works for passengers and potential passengers is what is needed before anything else.
They're pissing in to the wind if they think otherwise.

This is exactly the issue.  Complete morons making the case for discouraging car usage while at the same time decimating the already pretty crap alternative that is public transport in the 2020s.  All any of the attempts to make car travel less appealing actually deliver is increased emissions/congestion as people queue longer or drive further to get to the same place.  If this wasn't the case, we wouldn't see endless service cuts "to better match demand" as the roads get busier.

A bit like how not so long ago MG was demonising the motorist, claiming there was no need for anyone to own a car...interestingly the narrative has now evolved into needing "car sized solutions" when there's not enough profit in it for the shareholders to run "public" transport service in a given area, and when the LA coffers are bled dry.