> It improves the lives of all those who are agnostic to their mode of transportation but want to get to their destination faster.
But they're not getting to their destination faster. They were getting there in fifteen minutes, now it takes three hours because they can no longer afford to drive but the bus doesn't actually go to their destination.
> We'd make separate bus roads, bicycle roads, and car roads, and then the road user would select their mode and their road and be done with it.
You don't need separate roads, you need mass transit that actually goes where people need to go.
Or better yet, to put more people where mass transit already is.
> Prioritizing a car solution makes it worse for busses and bicyclists to use the same road.
A bus can use the same uncongested road as a car with no problems, and traffic congestion is the same problem for both. There are a hundred different ways to address congestion other than "punish drivers" -- add new mass transit routes, build more housing on existing routes, lower or eliminate mass transit fares, switch from property tax to land value tax to encourage density, etc.
But they're not getting to their destination faster. They were getting there in fifteen minutes, now it takes three hours because they can no longer afford to drive but the bus doesn't actually go to their destination.
> We'd make separate bus roads, bicycle roads, and car roads, and then the road user would select their mode and their road and be done with it.
You don't need separate roads, you need mass transit that actually goes where people need to go.
Or better yet, to put more people where mass transit already is.
> Prioritizing a car solution makes it worse for busses and bicyclists to use the same road.
A bus can use the same uncongested road as a car with no problems, and traffic congestion is the same problem for both. There are a hundred different ways to address congestion other than "punish drivers" -- add new mass transit routes, build more housing on existing routes, lower or eliminate mass transit fares, switch from property tax to land value tax to encourage density, etc.