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It's not easy to use a car. We make people wait unti they are 17, make them pass a strict and really quite difficult test, impose compulsory insurance on them (at exhorbitant cost for the newer driver) and demand that drivers adhere to a huge and confusing raft of motoring legislation. On top of that we design or alter roads to discourage driving, subsidise a flotilla of buses to slow journeys down, allow any sod to dig up whatever road they see fit seemingly without any control whatsoever, and even without that the roads are simply packed full of cabs, lost people, delivery drivers, cyclists, pedestrians, wayward animals and so on.
Yet with all that people still consider public transport worse. Mainly because it is.