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I don't know which planet you live on, but London's public transit is hellish on days where it works. The fact that there seems to be industrial action every ot
by DocTomoe 2y ago
I don't know which planet you live on, but London's public transit is hellish on days where it works. The fact that there seems to be industrial action every other week, that the subway is slowly heating up, and major stations are virtually always overcrowded is not something I even take into consideration. Not when the local trains have a toss-of-a-coin chance of actually showing up at all, or even in a configuration that was originally planned, and not just half of the carriages.
I unironically had better public transit in third-world countries.
- fecal_henge 2y agoCertainly not my experience of London transport. I get a combination of trains, tubes and busses most days. I also grew up in rural England so I know what shitty transport is really like.
- Symbiote 2y agoWhen they write "subway" and "transit" — not words used in London — I doubt they live there.
- FredPret 2y agoThe tube is great (less so when they're striking or there's snow or it's rush hour). But London is a singularly great place for tube tunnels and other mass transit: - birthplace of the industrial revolution - had a ton of infrastructure development during the 1800s when safety was no concern and development could be done cheap and fast - high density - lots of engineers and other skilled people to make it work - tons, tons of money and support from a big government in a high-tax society - focal point of a global empire for a long time, which fed all the above even more - a nice layer of softer rock underneath the city perfect for tunnelling We should build mass transit in places like this where it makes sense. But for 99% of the rest of Earth's populated surface, it won't.