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drat, my wife just quit her job because the one hour (train) commute was too much. I can't even imagine more than an hour and without being able to post/work on the way on top of it.
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of american workers over 16 and not working from home: 9.8% have a 1 way commute time of 60 minutes or more 3% have a 1 way commute time of 90 minutes or more but its the train commuters who are the ones actually doing those super long commutes:  still, the average one way car commute is 23 minutes, that's a lot of time when you add it up! also the breakdown by metro is interesting. Atlanta showing up with the larger than average % with 60 minute each way commutes, especially for the metro size.  more commute facts: quote:In 2019, the average one-way commute in the United States increased to a new high of 27.6 minutes. https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2021/acs/acs-47.pdf
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:It's straight up a copy of any late eighties / early nineties suburban strip mall development, there's even a Red Lobster across from the ballpark And it has basically zero integration into the city. It's an island surrounded on two sides by interstate. The third side is cut off by apartments that aren't really integrated into the streets. So there's only one real connection to the outside unless you count this bridge over 285. If they'd connected MARTA to it I wouldn't complain so much, but they went with a shuttle system instead. I guess you could walk through this.
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lobster shirt posted:theres a lot to hate about houston in general but i do like that all of our sports stadiums are centrally located and accessible by public transit. you can ride the light rail or the bus to go see any of our teams, it's very easy. hell the light rail can drop you off directly at the soccer and football parks. Same in Minneapolis/St. Paul. The light rail doesn't go very many places, but at least you can take it to sporting events/the airport. I used to go to Twins games and have a couple of beers at a bar after the game so the light rail wouldn't be as busy, was nice.
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May 5, 2023 20:52
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:When I first moved here I worked with a guy who had a 115 mile round trip commute every day. Some people are just sickos I work with a gal who has a commute like that to a job that pays a couple bucks more than state minimum wage poo poo is bad ETA: there is no train, there is no commutable bus, God I wish there were a train tho
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A wise jedi once said, drive or drive not, there is no train. hahahahahappy belated May 4th.
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i have a 45 minute commute because all the trains in the bronx run in slow motion and stop every three blocks and take random long delays when theres no trains in either direction at all.
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May 6, 2023 00:56
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I had to drive to a neighboring city for a workshop this week instead of my usual "sit in my basement" strategy and I gotta say, driving in Renton sucks major dookie
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:I had to drive to a neighboring city for a workshop this week instead of my usual "sit in my basement" strategy and I gotta say, driving in Renton sucks major dookie
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BonHair posted:This is why you have first class seating in trains, the exact same great experience, only more expensive so you don't have to deal with people who care about money. the price difference is a hell of a lot less than it is for flying at least
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May 6, 2023 01:26
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imagine not getting all kitted up to try to KOM your work commute each and every day
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cat botherer posted:Anything in Renton sucks major dookie. we've got a Reston around here, and a Denton too a bit further away, never heard of no dang Renton. but i hate the sound of it
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:imagine not getting all kitted up to try to KOM your work commute each and every day God, I wish that was me
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May 6, 2023 07:06
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Car parked outside my house speaks to my anti authoritarian side:
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BonHair posted:Car parked outside my house speaks to my anti authoritarian side: with the huge number of wheel-wall-crawl car flips that happen in my area, this is necessary. it's wild how a car will just give up and flop on its back if it gets too close to another car. even at like 10mph.
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The car lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, spinning its wheels trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?
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May 6, 2023 19:21
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I, an American, am rendered completely helpless without a working car?
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Cross-quoting a thread appropriate tweet.Ornamental Dingbat posted:https://twitter.com/TweetPotato314/status/1654621993990275077?t=d-DbVBuCsXwyXihrSTXhWQ&s=19
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saw one of these bad boys today
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:imagine not getting all kitted up to try to KOM your work commute each and every day every day i ride the Tour de gently caress You
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:imagine not getting all kitted up to try to KOM your work commute each and every day after I finally cracked 04:00 all my desire to get there as quickly as possible melted away, plus it was kind of reckless to sprint like that with pedestrians to watch out for. plus aren't KOMs all meaningless with ebikes everywhere? I don't pay for strava and am not on it much
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:My first experiences of the deep south were working in suburban Birmingham when I was 18-19 and I was gobsmacked, coming from the northeast, that people lived in these isolated gated communities with no sidewalks or even streetlights. my god that sounds like a loving paradise compared to paying hundreds of dollars a month for streetlights aimed directly into your bedroom windows
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My wife went out for a run today, and when she hit the light to cross a cross walk, one car stopped and got violently rear ended (either that person wasn't paying attention or probably on their phone). While they waited approx 5 mins for firefighters etc to arrive, the guy who got hit couldn't get out of his car because he was sore and likely in shock, but multiple passing cars stopped to yell at them for slowing traffic and one guy slowing way down to really aggressively yell at them to "get your loving cars off to the side!". Fun day! Cars ftw
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May 6, 2023 21:56
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actionjackson posted:saw one of these bad boys today Laughing at the low angles they choose to photograph their cars from. This image of the GMC Yukon is from the perspective of a 6-year-old who is about to get hit.
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Harik posted:my god that sounds like a loving paradise compared to paying hundreds of dollars a month for streetlights aimed directly into your bedroom windows star gazers and suburbanites love to poo poo on street lights but they actually proven by studies increase safety and encourage people to walk or cycle at night.
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Celexi posted:star gazers and suburbanites love to poo poo on street lights but they actually proven by studies increase safety and encourage people to walk or cycle at night. Around here there are subdivisions full of street lights that stay dark at night because the homeowners associations can't agree on how to pay the light bill for them.
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Was hanging out at the riverfront in my town when I saw a car just blast through the dog-leg in the front of the museum, jump the curb, go down the river slope and nosedive into the river. I couldn't make it to the other side of the bridge but the people on that bank of the river was waving and shouting at the car. I don't think anyone managed to get out of the car. Took about 5-8 minutes for the first police car to arrive, 12 minutes for fire department, 30 minutes for dive team. https://twitter.com/GBMFD/status/1655004654336458752 There's been about a dozen police It was loving crazy watching it happen, I was looking at the other side of the river and this car just barrels out of nowhere into the water.
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actionjackson posted:saw one of these bad boys today how does it drive
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SKULL.GIF posted:I was looking at the other side of the river and this car just barrels out of nowhere into the water.
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hey look, someone's using a truk for moving things https://twitter.com/ass_beaters/status/1654885000523776004 this is rare enough to be notable.
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SKULL.GIF posted:Was hanging out at the riverfront in my town when I saw a car just blast through the dog-leg in the front of the museum, jump the curb, go down the river slope and nosedive into the river. https://fox11online.com/news/local/green-bay/green-bay-dive-team-responding-to-report-of-a-vehicle-in-fox-river quote:UPDATE: Police say the vehicle was recovered at 11:00 p.m. Saturday. RIP
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SKULL.GIF posted:this car just barrels out of nowhere into the water. was it a white nissan altima by any chance, because that is a total altima manuever
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Xaris posted:was it a white nissan altima by any chance, because that is a total altima manuever No, it was a black SUV/hatchback (couldn't really tell) of some type. The windows were open and the trunk was popped. After the nosedive all the airbags were deployed. I half suspect it was a suicide attempt, and the other half of me suspects they were zonked out on some type of opioid (or flat out drunk on regular old alcohol). Either way they're dead after diving into a 6 foot deep riverbank and their car was their coffin. Pedestrians don't fly off bridges like that, bicycles and motorbikes do sometimes but you can just let go and swim to shore. Just honestly really hosed up all around.
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Celexi posted:star gazers and suburbanites love to poo poo on street lights but they actually proven by studies increase safety and encourage people to walk or cycle at night. suburbanites are incredibly paranoid about people walking around after dark because of the lack of lights and I have driven into a suburb at night to attend a party once and it was my first time since I grew up in the city and holy poo poo it's so loving creepy. It skeeved me out so much, I immediately understood why everyone who lives in suburbs is so afraid all the time.
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Celexi posted:star gazers and suburbanites love to poo poo on street lights but they actually proven by studies increase safety and encourage people to walk or cycle at night. every single streetlight should have a loving shroud/shield on it so it's actually pointing light on what it means to illuminate and not anywhere else
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IMHO streetlights should illuminate the surroundings at night. Just get better curtains.
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