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Nobody uses transit anymore, it's too crowded.
by Fricken 9y ago
Nobody uses transit anymore, it's too crowded.
- closeparen 9y agoWhen your choices are “put up with transit” or “live somewhere else,” plenty of people choose transit, grudgingly, for a while. But we can and should do better.
- Fricken 9y agoI was recently in Vancouver for a month and used transit daily. It's a well oiled machine and not unpleasant to use. This is in stark contrast to my home city, a more typically north American city: sprawling, car-centric and any transport mode that isn't a motor vehicle is compromised, and transit system exists to punish people for being poor. Even using a car is compromised because of all the other cars, there's a geometry problem there. Nobody is actually saving time, they're just spending lots of money, running people over and generally making a mess. But you do have a nice, protective shell to segregate you from strangers. My primary experience living in different cities is 'put up with cars or live somewhere else', and I don't even know where this mythical land unsullied by the tyranny of the automobile might be, but I fantasize about it regularly.
- alicorn 9y agoThe Netherlands, Danmark and, to a lesser extent, Sweden are seriously rethinking the automobile tyranny. I live in Sweden, and have no real need to own a car, since public transportation and a bicycle solve pretty much all my transportation needs.
- ahartmetz 9y agoThis sounds like another instance of Silicon Valley trying to fix something that doesn't need fixing, certainly not the way Silicon Valley considers "fixed". Public transit does not need to be awful. In many places it's great!
- curun1r 9y agoYou should probably credit Yogi Berra if you're going to steal his quotes.
- Fricken 9y agoIf I had asked Yogi Berra what he wanted, he would've said 'A faster horse'.
- AstralStorm 9y agoSo an electric bicycle with solar power. ;)