Not one.
Not a single one of you is gonna acknowledge the artistry that is the username “beemovieerotica”?
If you look on Google Maps, there’s this super convenient line of trees that goes from the next large city north-ish of my town to the largest city in the state, south of me. It runs right through my town. If you go looking in that line of trees, you’ll find abandoned train tracks.
There was a day when someone (not me, I’m not that old) could get on a train in my town and go to virtually any medium to large city. Now, we can’t even get funding to connect the walking trail segments that parallel portions of those abandoned tracks between towns.
Fuck cars
It’s a mystery why people don’t take buses in the US.
A real head scratcher.
Just one more lane bro. And remove the bicycle lanes. That’ll fix everything.
that’s why god created marshrutkas
The bus doesn’t even stop in my town anymore.
I live about 30 minutes walking from my workplace, that usually takes about 15 minutes by car (20 at rush hour).
It takes more than 90 minutes to get there by bus.
Huh. My office is about 30 minutes walking too, but 5 minutes drive and about 15 by bus (only because there are literally 3 different routes that happen to run between a couple blocks from my house to a block from my work, so the fucking half hour frequency doesn’t apply - I specifically live near bus lines always but they slashed the frequency) . I actually bike in every day unless it’s raining.
so the fucking half hour frequency doesn’t apply
No, you misunderstood.
If I decide to go by bus, it will take more than 90 minutes of travel time. The wait time isn’t counted there. (I would need to take 2 buses, one is hourly, the other one is frequent.)
Before I started working from home, I used to walk.
Ah. For me the most direct possible route has car road, buses (yes three of them, and oddly, this only happens in a couple of places and home to work is one of them) and sidewalks, and the roads are 35mph ones so if pedestrians are on the sidewalk I take the bike in the road, if it’s clear I take the sidewalk.
Our old location, it was different - there was a way to walk between my kids school and the office, but no safe bike route and car had to go on the highway and loop around, the road didn’t exist, and house to work no way but car, it had a bus stop but only the bus to the next city passed it, and that one you have to board in downtown so I know what you are talking about. Even with the express bus between downtown and work it would have taken a couple of hours. And driving took between 10 minutes and 50 minutes depending on traffic (bus subject to same traffic) So glad they moved into the city.
Living in a bigger Florida city for a while, I realized the bus system was not for me. Besides way less than stellar routing to get from point A to point 1 to point H to point L to point B, they changed how they handled pricing more than a few times while I was there. Add the fact that even by car you’re looking at about 30 minutes time, and who knows how long for the bus, made me a diehard cyclist. Most trips were comparable to driving with the added benefits that cycling has. Unfortunately there is almost no incentive for cities to upgrade public transport that enough people will get behind, even if it makes the most sense.
I used to bike to work when I lived in Louisiana. It was fortunate that my office was a block from the YMCA, so I could shower and change after my ride in. The downside was that the Y was the hangout of the fat old white men who worked at the courthouse and liked to lounge around naked on the couches in the locker room, laughing and making jokes about sending black men to Angola prison for decades for crimes they probably didn’t commit (these were judges, prosecutors and public defenders talking about this shit).
Yeah that’s where I am, and with some exceptions (there has been a one-bus route to the university at all my residences, like walk a few blocks, get on a bus, relax, end of the line is the school) it’s so difficult to use the bus system, one transfer and you are hosed. If I had a magic wand, I’d reinstate the trolley lines to their original farthest reach plus stadium and business districts, make all buses run every 15 minutes (the routes are reasonable) and make it all fare free, or an easy and cheap subscription, wave phone or ticket.
Jokes on you the GTA 's (Greater Toronto areas) public transit system is like this too! 🤩 I hate it here
Torontos system def needs work, but it’s by far better than most. Presumably it really falls apart outside of downtown though. Driving is for sure hell… You’d think it’d be easier to at least convince people to bump public trans to make room on the expressway.
I mean…to be fair, the people I’ve met from Toronto are always the most selfish self entitled main character syndrome assholes I run into. It’s like Canadas version of Chicago. I’m honestly surprised Toronto doesn’t have some common food that they try to be “famous” for. Chicago deep dish isn’t pizza, it’s lasagna cosplaying as pizza. I could eat pizza every day. I could only eat Chicago style once a year or so.
Yeah if u r outside of major street or subway, good luck. Streetcars are often slower than running lmao
