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Decided to bus back to the office today rather than do yet another short car trip. Ride on the bus was pleasant but I didn't have enough money on the smart-card thing we have for public transit here for the return trip. I haven't used public transport for over a year and forgot how stupid the system is, literally the only way you can pay for the bus is via the smart card and adding money to it online takes 24 hours to take effect. The only way you can instantly add money to it is at a shop or station that does that, which for me was more than 1 km in any direction. There's no way to pay for the bus with card or cash, or to instantly 'top up' the card without going to one of a few specific locations. I don't get how an online payment takes 24 hours to process in 2022 but I'm sure it involves some level of graft and/or corruption, and it seems like a pretty good way to discourage people from using public transport.
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Oct 31, 2022 04:52
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It's probably not 24 hours to process the transaction so much as 24 hours for the transaction information to get copied to the bus so it can update the balance on the card offline Not that that's much more justifiable in 2022 but I think it's how a lot of these systems still work unfortunately
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Oct 31, 2022 04:56
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Blackhawk posted:Decided to bus back to the office today rather than do yet another short car trip. Ride on the bus was pleasant but I didn't have enough money on the smart-card thing we have for public transit here for the return trip. I haven't used public transport for over a year and forgot how stupid the system is, literally the only way you can pay for the bus is via the smart card and adding money to it online takes 24 hours to take effect. The only way you can instantly add money to it is at a shop or station that does that, which for me was more than 1 km in any direction. There's no way to pay for the bus with card or cash, or to instantly 'top up' the card without going to one of a few specific locations. I don't get how an online payment takes 24 hours to process in 2022 but I'm sure it involves some level of graft and/or corruption, and it seems like a pretty good way to discourage people from using public transport. lol 24 hrs to add value is insane. i find in these situations you can almost always just ride for free, but it is awkward
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Halloween is a beautiful holiday because it's one time out of the year where lots of people remember how nice it is to walk around town (please don't remind me of the tragedies,I know). but if i have to walk to stare at my phone instead of drive to copypaste mall to stare at my phone, how would i have the BRANDZ to show me as a uniquely deep intellectual personhood
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mystes posted:It's probably not 24 hours to process the transaction so much as 24 hours for the transaction information to get copied to the bus so it can update the balance on the card offline Yeah I'm sure it's this because they say you need to use the card within some number of weeks after topping up or the transaction gets refunded, so it's probably 24 hours because the bus needs to go back to the depot and hook up to the internal wifi network or something. But as you say in 2022 and I'm in the middle of the country's biggest city, there's no reason these things couldn't be in constant network communication, or alternatively they should be capable of accepting non-contact credit card payments, or they should let your account go negative and just subtract that from the next time you top-up, or it should be loving free because it's public transport and we need people to use it instead of driving.
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Blackhawk posted:Decided to bus back to the office today rather than do yet another short car trip. Ride on the bus was pleasant but I didn't have enough money on the smart-card thing we have for public transit here for the return trip. I haven't used public transport for over a year and forgot how stupid the system is, literally the only way you can pay for the bus is via the smart card and adding money to it online takes 24 hours to take effect. The only way you can instantly add money to it is at a shop or station that does that, which for me was more than 1 km in any direction. There's no way to pay for the bus with card or cash, or to instantly 'top up' the card without going to one of a few specific locations. I don't get how an online payment takes 24 hours to process in 2022 but I'm sure it involves some level of graft and/or corruption, and it seems like a pretty good way to discourage people from using public transport. portland's public transit lets you use any NFC debit card the same as a transit pass. you get charged the fare, with a daily max of $5. i could just wave my wallet over the sensor on the street cars, light rail, or buses to pay. super easy and frictionless to use. so of course most places are absolute garbage with systems designed to suck.
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the twin cities transit app used to have unlimited free rides. you could buy tickets through the app and when you activated them they weren't scanned by anything. activating a ticket on your phone created a transfer animation with the date and time that was 'good' for x time 2 1/2 hours whatever and you show the screen of your phone to the driver. one could just screen record a transfer and use that forever because drivers don't bother reading things like date/time or more likely bus drivers don't generally give a gently caress if you're quiet, upright and aren't oding right at that moment. trying this gave me more anxiety than saving $2 was worth but i know some folks who rode for years for free. i think they fixed the flaw?? this must have happened elsewhere
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:Yes. Basically everyone concludes world lithium mining needs to ramp up massively for all those batteries in new cars. Like an order of magnitude greater than current lithium mining. Like ... build more? There are already plenty of electric trains with electric energy supplied either by overhead lines or by electrified tracks, battery supply would make no sense whatsoever.
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Oct 31, 2022 10:24
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pixar peaked with toy story 2. cars is dumb because they made the bizarre decision to have the windshield be huge gross sonic the hedgehog eyes instead of the obvious headlamps
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Mr. Sharps posted:pixar peaked with toy story 2. cars is dumb because they made the bizarre decision to have the windshield be huge gross sonic the hedgehog eyes instead of the obvious headlamps headlamps are tits, duh :giggity:
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Oct 31, 2022 11:01
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The concept of paying for public transport is pretty dumb in the first place, just tons of effort wasted on something that adds zero value.
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Oct 31, 2022 11:44
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BonHair posted:The concept of paying for public transport is pretty dumb in the first place, just tons of effort wasted on something that adds zero value. if we dont have fares in america how would the cops hold up the entire transit system to arrest fare evaders
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Palladium posted:if we dont have fares in america how would the cops hold up the entire transit system to arrest fare evaders Can you do it based on race maybe?
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Oct 31, 2022 11:59
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We've had fare-free buses for a couple of years, but the city says they'll need to reinstate fares to run the buses more often. It's been really nice to not have to swipe a card or wait for people to swipe cards though.
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how about instead of fares they fund the buses based on a tax on gasoline for personal automobiles? 
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:how about instead of fares they fund the buses based on a tax on gasoline for personal automobiles? *insert shitlib what-about-the-disabled arguments against here*
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Junkozeyne posted:Like ... build more? There are already plenty of electric trains with electric energy supplied either by overhead lines or by electrified tracks, battery supply would make no sense whatsoever.
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Kicked Throat posted:the twin cities transit app used to have unlimited free rides. you could buy tickets through the app and when you activated them they weren't scanned by anything. activating a ticket on your phone created a transfer animation with the date and time that was 'good' for x time 2 1/2 hours whatever and you show the screen of your phone to the driver. one could just screen record a transfer and use that forever because drivers don't bother reading things like date/time or more likely bus drivers don't generally give a gently caress if you're quiet, upright and aren't oding right at that moment. the Jersey City light rail has an idiotic system where you buy and validate a ticket but the only time it’s ever checked is when cops randomly show up to stop the train for way too long to check everyone’s ticket and kick off all the poors. I never actually saw this happen and only ever saw them check tickets at the end stations which I barely ever used. after a bit I just stopped ever buying tickets and never got caught
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Maed posted:an idiotic system where you buy and validate a ticket but the only time it’s ever checked is when cops randomly show up to stop the train literally hundreds of transit systems more or less work this way. not saying it's good or bad, but it isn't unique
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webcams for christ posted:literally hundreds of transit systems more or less work this way. not saying it's good or bad, but it isn't unique I know it’s not unique but it’s still idiotic. either make it free or have turnstiles and don’t make people late for doctors appointments and work so some chud cops can play ICE agent for 15 minutes
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Fitzy Fitz posted:We've had fare-free buses for a couple of years, but the city says they'll need to reinstate fares to run the buses more often. It's been really nice to not have to swipe a card or wait for people to swipe cards though. imo at the margin this is a reasonable decision for transport agencies to make, given the tradeoffs they face. Public transport is good, and the benefits of making it better and more useful for people are probably better than making it free in most cases. making it free is a great improvement too but not always the best one (assuming that you can charge in a reasonable manner, if you're organisationally incapable of stopping fee collection impacting service quality then you've got bigger problems anyway)
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Public transit is a public good that promotes economic activity, subsidizing it with cheap/free fares is only logical.
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Yeah, both fare and fare-free systems have their place. My job subsidizes bus rides anyway, so I can ride for "free" even if they reinstate fares. Now that is a good system.
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Maed posted:I know it’s not unique but it’s still idiotic. either make it free or have turnstiles and don’t make people late for doctors appointments and work so some chud cops can play ICE agent for 15 minutes it doesn't have to be literal cops, and it doesn't have to slow down the bus/tram/whatever. loads of places have very low impact fare collection and enforcement. making it free is also cool though and perhaps easier than making it accessible to everyone anyway/fixing your operations if your leadership sucks rear end
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-OX6LoLKes LA Cops arrested a man riding his wheelchair on the freeway. Bullshit. Cars driving down bike lanes go free but cops respond to this. In Houston, if you ride your bicycle on the freeway, cops will show up to arrest you. Even if you ride your bike in the emergency lane.
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There's a posh neighborhood in Philly called Chestnut Hill. It's served by two regional rail stations and two different lines, however it is possible to take a train between the two. These wacky boys undertook that voyage Lots of great Philadelphia train station video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYKYVCylh6c It takes them about an hour and 20 minutes each leg of the journey. At the end they walk between the two stations and it takes 5.5 minutes
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woke up this morning and thought drat cars are bad
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lobster shirt posted:woke up this morning and thought drat cars are bad wake up wake up wake up it's the first of the month wake up wake up wake up and you know cars loving suuuuck
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In Copenhagen at least, we have dedicated personnel who have it as their job to check tickets in trains and buses. These people obviously have a lovely job, and it's not their fault, but it just feels so incredibly wasteful to have people running around doing something af unproductive as that. Kinda like the guys giving parking tickets, but without the benefit of loving with car owners. Also there's untold millions wasted on the it system for fares. Just money out the window.
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wake up grab your car put on a little makeup
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Reposting this from yospos: https://twitter.com/notkavi/status/1586946904566501376
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building a manual transmission out of rocks and twigs to teach my kids how to drive our Flintstones car
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:building a manual transmission out of rocks and twigs to teach my kids how to drive our Flintstones car lol
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driving my flintstone car out to the turmeric fields so I can treat my cancer herbally
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Family compounds in cities look cool. For other families of course. If I had to live with my family I'd kms.
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retvrn to manual transmission
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My ancestors learning the real tradish poo poo
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BonHair posted:In Copenhagen at least, we have dedicated personnel who have it as their job to check tickets in trains and buses. These people obviously have a lovely job, and it's not their fault, but it just feels so incredibly wasteful to have people running around doing something af unproductive as that. Kinda like the guys giving parking tickets, but without the benefit of loving with car owners. But we need a way to keep undesirables off the trains.
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