Public trasport blues

I love public transport. But I hate bus transport in Helsinki.

You cannot really justify for somebody to change his/her comfortable car to a bus that presents and ancient technology, bursts out poopload of VOCs and nitrogen and makes horrendous noise. Sometimes they are less so and sometimes you catch an individual bus that runs with gas and is in good shape - and the driver might even be nice to you! But it is a gamble - you never know what you get. Dunno if the city of Helsinki has issued any standards about environmental load or tidyness of the buses, but if they have I fail to see it. Different companies in charge of the routes seem to be able to use as old and worn -out buses they like.

It can be always argued that people should be happy just to have some means of public transport, and it is just elitism to require that public transport should also be pleasant experience, using advanced technology. But you know what? I think that would be the only way to actually save the cities as both good places to live and good places to do business. Otherwise we are trapped with "keeping city alive" with ever increasing car-domination.