The latest trend killing private cars, the enemy of public transportation

Capture shot taken from Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport YouTube

It’s not something to make a fuss about like in the capture, but it’s just that we’re going to expand what we’re doing in Seoul, Busan, and Sejong to local governments across the country.

Until then, the government had not shown much interest, but the expansion of BRT support was brought forward to improve public transportation in poor local governments that could not afford urban railways or trams.

Example photo of what we did in Busan

As you can see from the capture, you can see that the BRT line takes up at least 3 lanes and up to 4 lanes.

A bus-only lane is laid in the center, and private vehicles are not allowed here.

This is a guideline from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport

In addition, rather than simply installing routes, a bus priority signal system was introduced.

Buses require less waiting at signals than regular cars.

To be honest, Non-stop is at the ultimate level so it seems difficult.

The final goal is to be at the subway level, but there is a signal, but that won’t happen.

It’s better than a regular bus in any way.

Then why is the country expanding BRT and why are local governments also active in introducing it?

This is because the use of public transportation is decreasing and the use of passenger cars is increasing.

The level of local public transportation has been shattered. It’s not something that happens in a day or two, but the increasing number of passenger cars is problematic.

Looking at the case of Changwon City, the only special city in the province,

The population is 1 million, but the number of registered vehicles is 600,000.

There is one car for every 1.67 people.

There are too many cars on the street

In fact, it goes without saying that it is very convenient to use your own car in most local cities in Korea.

This is because the city was not designed with pedestrians in mind, but rather with passenger car use in mind, like in the United States.

The roads are wide open like this, but it would be an idiot not to take a car.

Naturally, the share of public transportation in rural areas is very low.

However, we can’t eliminate public transportation, so even if we try hard to get people to use public transportation, the deficit will only increase.

The road environment itself is already so unfavorable to public transportation, so why would you give up your car?

So the conclusion drawn from urban design is ‘Let’s make it shitty to ride a car.’

On an 8- to 10-lane road, 3 to 4 lanes are completely destroyed by passenger cars in the name of exclusive lanes.

Of course, existing passenger cars will become clogged and the time spent on the road will increase.

Since buses run without cars, the chances of arriving late or not being on time are greatly reduced.

It’s an intentional complaint.

However, even if it is necessary for the city, it will soon lead to a decrease in the approval rating of the city administration.

In the end, it is unfortunate that there are many cases where further progress is prevented due to political opposition.

Changwon is also unable to proceed with phase 2.

Actually, I only mentioned the bus.

The trams being planned by local governments these days have the same role as BRT.

The difference from BRT is that the number of people transported is much higher, and since it is rail transportation, users prefer it.

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