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Bullshit.
Come sit in the standstill traffic that I sit in every single day where I used to cruise through before bus only lanes.
I live in Boston. Traffic is absolutely no worse than it was 15 years ago.
Get on the bus, dumbass, that's the point.
Fuuuuuck that.
Oh I am sorry, your anecdotal evidence is clearly more reliable than research.
I don't know the specifics of your situation. I am sure that it is frustrating. However, public transportation serves numerous people more efficiently (when running correctly, lets not get sidetracked) and discouraging single occupancy vehicles is a positive in many people's minds. Increasing single occupancy vehicle throughput by maintaining multiple lanes of traffic has been shown to hurt cities in many ways. I have a friend who is an electrician and he simply cannot use public transportation because he needs a van to take equipment to numerous locations, but he also supports road diets and bike lanes and that really makes me respect him.