SILICON VALLEY: Hey, you know how we could fix transportation?
ME: By decisively shifting towards mass transit instead of having massive concrete jungles based on the premise that every single person will have their own $40,000 deathtrap of pollution?
SILICON VALLEY: No, we're gonna have the deathtraps, just without any drivers!
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@dnannann
Have a friend whose a civil engineer for a large metro traffic department say last week:
"nothing makes me smile like when someone complains about forty single occupant cars having to wait for a two hundred occupant light-rail to pass and I get to smugly reply, 'workin as intended'. "
@_cr0_tab @dnannann The assumption pushed is that the train/bus is always full and the cars are always single occupant. But then the train/bus has to do a return trip almost empty with the same smug fu to other commuters.
And did you ever ask yourself why people in cars don't take the train/bus. Usually because it's so demeaning they'd rather endure the delay, parking cost, etc.
It's about forcing the working class to be cattle.
Oh, I often have to take the NYC subway. I have three lines I could use yet often none are even close to providing decent service. Ride a bike, like I do.
@Silversalty @_cr0_tab The idea that public transport is something inherently demeaning is something that is both completely hogwash and restricted entirely to the United States. Any notion that public transit is a demeaning experience is solely because of personal prejudices against public transit and institutional measures which make public transit the only viable option for disadvantaged people in the U.S.
@Silversalty @_cr0_tab Europe, Japan, and honestly most other countries, developed or developing, lack the sort of disdain for public transit the U.S. has, and as a result public transit networks in those regions are much more comprehensive, efficient, and widely-used
Indian here. From the capital, Delhi.
Can assure you that disdain for public transport is not restricted to America. In fact I invite you to stay for a few months here and who knows you might find a new respect for 'deathtraps' that you speak of.
In my adult life, I have been mugged some 5-6 times - each and every time while on public transport or while walking on road. Last time was as recent as November 4, 2017.
Since 5 years now, I generally commute by motorbike, but I also own and drive a car. So I have been safe while driving these, no matter where I go.
I use public transit only when it is prohibitively inconvenient to drive.
