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This is not true in my experience, Seattle has a pretty solid bus system and we still felt like we were having to plan around them even though they generally wo
by kiba 3y ago
This is not true in my experience, Seattle has a pretty solid bus system and we still felt like we were having to plan around them even though they generally would stop every 15 minutes. You could not count on them 100% either. Occasionally they just don't show up.
15 minutes is not frequent enough.
- mcpackieh 3y ago15 minutes isn't frequent enough if you live a block or so away from the bus stop, but it's pretty damn frequent if you live on the same road as the bus stop. If they can figure out how to make buses that aren't loud enough to wake the dead then I'll change my mind. BTW I'm talking about diesel buses and electric trolley-buses. They're all loud.
- ben_w 3y agoThey should ask Berlin for advice. I've got a tram like right outside my window, and the trams are only audible right before the rails get ground back into shape; busses pass me regularly and I don't notice unless I'm looking. The sirens from the emergency vehicles on the other hand, those are probably part of the reason why I'm tired all the time.
- NeoTar 3y agoEmergency sirens being so loud is an unfortunate consequence of how good sound isolation is in contemporary cars. Unfortunately I don’t know of an easy solution to this. Perhaps vehicles should be required to rebroadcast emergency sirens internally? Or maybe it will solve itself when electric cars reduce road noise.
- ben_w 3y agoI wish the alternate-woop-and-ksssh had replaced the simple siren in more than just construction sites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cykmhi6bF4k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cykmhi6bF4k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa28lIGuxq8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa28lIGuxq8