And where car manufacturers literally buy up public transportation companies and run them into the ground.

Actually the ad mentions

• 56 people can "seat" on the streetcar (and many more could stand if needed)
• cars are pretty full with an unrealistic occupancy of 2 people per vehiclr

And finally 3 people in a bus occupy less room than 3 cars and consume more or less the same amount of fuel...

In the city where my mother lives they are repeatedly cutting down on the number of public busses, to the point where there is one bus per hour on Sundays. This is the 3rd largest city in the country of Denmark. The thinking goes: Well nobody is using the busses so why have so many. Then as less busses serve the city, less people use them. And round and round we go.

This is a good point. Especially because public transport comes out on top even if you consider them half empty, or cars full.

well the expectation is if more people prefer public transport over cars, the average number will increase to a level comparable to max capacity on busy hours

It's extra funny cause city ppl are actually subsidizing car infrastructure in the burbs.

You might even be able to sell a "solution" to the inefficiency you created out of profitability.

It's country of the freedom, so it's weird.
My interpretation: 1 3/5 = 1.6

3 to 5 on average

I think it's a speech thing that got written down, but then also written as the number instead of the word.

Like they use of the word "one" like this:

That's one weird thing to do.

That's a weird thing to do.

So I read that as:

averages 3-5 passengers

averages a 3-5 passengers

averages one 3-5 passengers

averages 1 3-5 passengers

Or your bus is late because impatient drivers won't let it merge back into traffic, and it doesn't get signal priority so 20 people on a bus could be wating at a red just to let 4 cars make a left turn. Since these factors slow the bus down, people find other ways like getting a car, and then the bus doesn't get used and the city can't fix it by just throwing money at.

Bring back dedicated transit lanes and transit priority. Lets make transit faster than driving because it really should be.

If the 1 and 3/5ths interpretation commented elsewhere is right, they might just have ran into a few pedestrians. Now the driver is giving an involuntary lift to a few dismembered body parts.

Maybe you could start with wearing the truck nutz yourself?

I do my best to be the change I want to see in the world and always de emphasize the significance of a vehicle as a status symbol.

I do it in small ways like not noticing what other people drive. Not taking a specific interest if someone wants to talk expensive cars. I’m not trying to rain on anybody’s parade, but I don’t want to give people the satisfaction over something that’s harmful to humans and harmful to the environment. Going out of my way to complement others about driving a vehicle that clearly meets their needs.

In general, I think we’d do well not to celebrate excess. We should recognize enough when we see it and strive for enough.

Credits to the original poster 😅