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bike chat. WOW. ever see people posting about valiantly taking the bus? i think nautical...
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Smythe posted:ever see people posting about valiantly taking the bus? there aren’t many people living where the bus system hasn’t been gutted to a point of unviability
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Dec 10, 2023 22:26
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in april i got an apartment specifically because it was on the bus line to work. it took twice as long as the website schedule said (45 minutes to go 5 miles) and by september it was being cancelled about 30-40% of the time, making me wait on the next one and turning the total trip into over an hour i took the city bus an absolute ton in high school and college and i think i can count on one hand the number of buses in that mult-year period that didn't show up. in 2023 that number was in the dozens until i got fed up and started driving
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Dec 10, 2023 22:29
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Grassy Knowles posted:there aren’t many people living where the bus system hasn’t been gutted to a point of unviability i take the bus sometimes. i bet many ppl do. but they dont wax about it constantly.... grow up
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Dec 10, 2023 22:29
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i say swears online posted:in april i got an apartment specifically because it was on the bus line to work. it took twice as long as the website schedule said (45 minutes to go 5 miles) and by september it was being cancelled about 30-40% of the time, making me wait on the next one and turning the total trip into over an hour the bus is really slow and sometimes it has a lot of crazy ppl in it. but sometimes it doesnt. overall the bus is pretty cool
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I ride the bus a few times a week. I might be the only non-student in my department who does.
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Dec 10, 2023 22:39
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Which part of New Jersey is that?
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Headband and gloves make biking in any weather totally fine tbh, just need to keep the hands, ears, and core warm. What, are you not gonna walk around outside because it's too cold? I assume these people go into their attached garage, get into their heated car, then park in the bike lane directly across the entrance of their destination to avoid dealing with the smallest discomfort or inconvenience even for a second.
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Precambrian Video Games posted:Which part of New Jersey is that? lol and if playstemon is actually NJ, expect a future ‘lmao’
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Dec 10, 2023 22:41
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Dec 10, 2023 22:43
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Last time I took the bus there was a dude watching car crash and road rage videos at top volume on his phone He wanted that authentic commuting experience I guess
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Dec 10, 2023 22:47
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It’s from Reddit, and it’s not from a city in New Jersey. It’s Surabaya. As penance, I present this video as an example of how the swiftness of omnibuses might be improved. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbWfL2uszRY
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Platystemon posted:It’s from Reddit, and it’s not from a city in New Jersey. request to lmao revoked
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Platystemon posted:It’s Surabaya. the difference between car and motorcycle times tipped me off that it was outside the US (maybe cali has that feature because of lane splitting?) Smythe posted:this thread loves bikes and trains but hates the bus... bourgeois.... neolib government can't defund my bike i say swears online has issued a correction as of 23:13 on Dec 10, 2023 |
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Dec 10, 2023 23:11
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this thread loves bikes and trains but hates the bus... bourgeois....
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"the bus is is a car" well you kno what else is a car? a wheelchair. ableism.
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i say swears online posted:neolib government can't defund my bike watch me
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Smythe is running lights and sirens to speed through the C-SPAM streets. This isn’t even your jurisdiction. 😤
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going to make a very long and thin bus and give it bike lane access.
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Platystemon posted:Smythe is running lights and sirens to speed through the C-SPAM streets. fuckin cops
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lol i had no idea this thread was slow mode. i was like "whys he editing a post to reply to me?" thats privilege
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modfluenza is no excuse
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People should boat more
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what is a car, but a land boat
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Mr Hootington posted:People should boat more just move to venice dummy
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I take take the bus to work most of the time. If the weather is literally perfect then I might walk, but otherwise I would rather read on the bus.
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Just move somewhere that has it I hadn't ridden a bike in 5 years before I moved to Switzerland. then I was a carless pedestrian at first, but within a month I realized that biking was by far the most convenient form of transit in my city, even with very mediocre paint-based infrastructure in winter-commuting news, last week I woke up to frozen magura rim brakes. gonna give the Trialtech brake fluid a shot
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I was LOLing at this video and thoughtmaxxed this thread https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7310493803121593642
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Smythe posted:"the bus is is a car" well you kno what else is a car? a wheelchair. ableism. buses aren't cars, they are wheeltrains
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i say swears online posted:in april i got an apartment specifically because it was on the bus line to work. it took twice as long as the website schedule said (45 minutes to go 5 miles) and by september it was being cancelled about 30-40% of the time, making me wait on the next one and turning the total trip into over an hour When, many years later, I went back to uni to do postgrad, I discovered that there was a bus that ran right from the corner of my street to the front of the university. It took about two weeks for me to give up on that. Buses would arrive late, or not at all, or pretend they didn't see the half-dozen people waiting there and drive on by the stop to avoid increasing the "late service" stats enough that the company would have to pay out compensation. The train (theoretically) took longer and was required more walking, but it was actually reliable so I switched to that. Second semester I got a bike and have never looked back. Wish I'd bought one years earlier. I should have been riding to highschool instead of walking. It would have been faster than taking the bus. It's usually pretty comparable to taking the train, once you factor in walk/wait times. I still take public transport when the weather's wet, or when I want to drink and not worry about pacing myself, but otherwise the bike's the best option. I never take buses unless it's absolutely unavoidable. Buses suck. HashtagGirlboss posted:Last time I took the bus there was a dude watching car crash and road rage videos at top volume on his phone speng31b posted:buses aren't cars, they are wheeltrains
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didnt read any of that soryr
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Tiggum posted:All trains have wheels though? should have said tires.....nevertheless maglev trains do not have wheels Tiggum posted:Last time I took the (train replacement) bus, a woman got on loudly and tunelessly singing along to U + Ur Hand by P!NK. A couple of guys took exception to this and started yelling and swearing at her. She turned off the music, but insulted them back. They were not having this and continued to yell and swear about how she was obviously on meth and the driver should throw her off. Eventually it seemed like they were going to let her get the last word in and shut up. Then they started up again, and she responded in kind. This pattern repeated for the entire trip. They just could not let it drop. Even after we all got off the bus, I saw them complaining to the driver that he should have kicked the woman off the bus. gently caress buses. skill issue
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speng31b posted:should have said tires.....nevertheless maglev trains do not have wheels Trains traditionally have steel tires
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I used to take the [light rail] train pretty much every day going from my house to my college campus, and back. I did that for four years but then it just sort of got progressively worse: the trains were fewer and far between - they ran slower, their A/C broke down more and more often. Eventually I got a job that I could walk to and I stopped taking the train and I'd see headlines about how it'd break down and people would have to walk along the tracks to get to the next station. I wouldn't say it was radicalizing because there was no lesson or takeaway there besides "this public service used to be good but it got neglected" but it was just broadly disappointing.
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https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7289499360130436398 I would say “just walk if it’s a sixty‐second cart ride“, but that wouldn’t make all the waiting drivers angry.
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it would genuinely be a massive improvement if even 50% of those parents driving their kids to school swapped their SUVs and F950’s for golf carts
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That's a lockdown.
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speng31b posted:should have said tires.....nevertheless maglev trains do not have wheels maglev trains have wheels, they use them until they build up the speed for levitation and put them back down again when they start slowing down.
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