Why aren’t city buses smaller? From time to time, I’ll admit it, I catch myself staring out my office window trying to think of an idea or walk thru a design detail in my head. I’ve always notice how damn loud buses are and how much exhaust they expel, but recently I’ve started to notice that city buses are rarely ever full.
Now I don’t believe that we should force people to utilize public transportation nor should we necessarily offer financial incentives for people to do so as well. (I think the incentives should be obvious.) Personally, I believe that people will utilize the form of transportation that is the most convenient and/or the least expensive. But I think that we need to determine if those 50’ long buses are necessarily required during certain hours of the day, in every city, much less at all. We’ve grown accustom to seeing those long buses as the norm, but what if one city started to view it differently. What if they started to use buses that actually fit the number of occupants on the bus.
It makes you think, what if people in our industry—builders, architects, remodelers, contractors, etc—started designing and building homes to fit the number of occupants it? With the current state of the economy, even more people will be designing or building for what they truly need rather that what they think they need.
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