i enjoy trains for the same reasons as everyone else but in most cities subway systems tend to be designed by people who only want to cater to rich tourists, and involve wasting huge amounts of money on shit that doesn’t matter.
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i gotta take two busses to a hospital i havent been to, which means NEW POKESTOPS
busses have a one up on cars because you can hit the pokestops. in cars you just zoom by them and have to wait for red lights
i 100 percent agree that train people who look down on busses need to get their shit together, because it almost certainly comes from a deep-ingrained lie they were told about only poor people riding the bus
as a young child we rode the bus, and its kinda gross how parents will talk shit on other parents to their children? like if my mom had a conversation with someone at the grocery store and said ‘i gotta catch a bus’ the next week at school everyones making fun of me for not having a car
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my wife always makes me slow down by like 5mph so pokemon go won’t yell at her for moving too fast
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does she ever yell 'IM A PASSENGER DAMNIT"
no she calls me the most aggressive prius driver in canada and threatens to castrate me so I’ll stop having something to prove
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she wouldnt yell ‘im a passenger damnit’ at you. pokemon go makes you say IM A PASSENGER when it says you’re moving too fast
and it just does it fucking randomly even when you’re WALKING so its a really frustrating pop up
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the tallest man in hobbiton
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yeah and I bet he loved living there too
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Felix should have both of these as titles, in alternating order, till the end of time.
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Disgusting that this thread is for people who don’t like cars but the car stans are out in force saying they love huffing carbon monoxide and hate beautiful egalitarian transportation.
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Replace 90% of the highway lanes with rails
Nationalize the extant railroads
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Give everyone a train!!
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High speed long trains seem like a very good solution to the problem of long distance travel in the states but idk if americans deserve these things
The solution in my expert opinion to local public transportation is not to build subways or whatever but to build walkable neighborhoods, another thing that americans don’t seem to want or understand
I like busses but honestly the people who need to be riding busses more often are not people who walk or ride bikes everywhere else, but people who drive. In cities (like mine) where living without a car means spending upwards of 2 hours on several different busses to get most places, if you have caved and bought a car for the sake of eliminating those ridiculous trips you can still probably figure out ways to commute shorter distances via public transportation
the place i work has an agreement where employees can ride the subway for free but not the bus, which is ridiculously classist and unfair in my opinion and i think that’s why i’m salty about it at the moment
busses are only effective insofar as you ban all the cars causing traffic congestion.
The main reason they’re so slow is all the idiots who shouldn’t be allowed to drive on the roads slowing everything down.
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Believe it or not they are effective even if you don’t execute everyone with a drivers license
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Yeah the big detractor for buses here is not the bewildered drivers but the taxi/vans/trucks who stop on double yellows next to bus stops and block the approach/take off. Even the roadworks aren’t as bad!
I live 25 miles away from where I work. My morning commute via car is 30-40 minutes. My evening commute is anywhere from 50 to 80 minutes. I hate it.
If I were to take public transit, my evening commute would be well over 2 hours. If I wanted to make it on time in the morning, Google Map’s best suggestion is over 10 hours long, leaves before I would get home via bus, has me wait in the middle of the night at a bus stop for 6 out of those 10 hours, and drops me off at work nearly two hours early.
Biking to work on the fastest route would take over 2 hours and funnels me over a very biker-unfriendly bridge. The next fastest route takes over 3 hours.
I wish those were viable options, but they aren’t. (I need a closer job.)
On the other hand my wife, being more righteous than I, walks to work (because it’s literally less than a minute away).
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just curious, what city?
I work in Lynnwood. I live north of Everett. (in the state of Washington)