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the only good types of city mass transit are elevated rail and subway. also lol @ the french train example. does it stop every 15 miles like American trains?
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Cat Face Joe posted:last year my us coworker decided to start riding his bike in and he was hit by a car the very first day bicycles do not belong on the road.
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bicycles are not a mode of transportation. they're a hobby. also lmao the downeaster is even worse than I thought. its an average of 12 miles between stops. 145miles takes 3.5 hours. that's why americans hate trains. they're garbage if you want to actually connect places
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Nov 19, 2015 16:42
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Cat Face Joe posted:he was crossing the street on the sidewalk they also don't belong on sidewalks
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Nov 19, 2015 16:43
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Cat Face Joe posted:shaggered again I mean if we're talking kids on bikes in their suburban neighborhoods that's one thing, but they need to stay out of busy streets. roads are for vehicles and sidewalks are for pedestrians
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Nov 19, 2015 16:47
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SO DEMANDING posted:yeah saw you post about that in the tech bubble thread, it pisses me off, too. they're all over the place but they suck because they have to serve everyone.
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Nov 19, 2015 17:01
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triple sulk posted:amtrak isn't getting the funding it really needs so the northeast corridor isn't getting the 30 minutes from philly -> ny trains until like 2040. dc to boston would be something like 2 hours iirc which immediately removes the need for a ton of flights funding has nothing to do with it. they expanded the downeaster recently and they're gonna expand it more. the problem is the train litterrrallly cannot get up to speed because it stops every 12 miles. that's not hyperbole, that's how it works. if you got rid of all stops between Portland and boston then you'd get there faster than a car and that would be great and would require 0 new infrastructure.
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Nov 19, 2015 17:06
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fart simpson posted:concord trailways serves all my carless boston <-> portland needs. it's cheaper and not really any slower, plus if i time it right i can get all the way to bangor concord trailways is absolutely faster than the downeaster cause it goes nonstop. mishaq posted:lol at defending the state of the northeast corridor with its 100 year old narrow tunnels everywhere idk about the rest of the rails, but the downeaster is actually used enough to warrant expansion but its crippled by all the stops, not by infrastructure.
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Nov 19, 2015 17:27
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yard salad posted:i commute on a bike because im not a terrified fatass that has to shield oneself in a living room on wheels, surrounded by every modern amenity at all times, the windows rolled up soundly to keep out all human contact lol source your quotes
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Nov 25, 2015 01:36
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wow that's an expensive subway
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Nov 30, 2015 15:31
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streetcars are completely retarded
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Dec 11, 2015 19:11
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just do elevated rail or subway. if you don't have the money for it your city isn't big enough to need it
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Dec 11, 2015 19:11
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Cygni posted:the downside of BRT in the states is that white/rich people hate buses, especially in some cities where they see buses as devices for subhuman pig people
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Dec 11, 2015 22:47
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mishaq posted:if enough people take the bus there are less cars so there's less traffic busses would need to deal with which would mean it would be better to drive a car which would be faster and more convenient than the bus what with all the reduced traffic
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Dec 12, 2015 05:05
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that would be incredibly stupid
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Dec 12, 2015 05:12
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good public transportation is subway and elevated rail. roads are for cars and busses will forever be trash for the pig folk
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Dec 12, 2015 05:16
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lmao that's the worst of all worlds
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Dec 12, 2015 05:22
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in this mythological universe where a bus that doesn't suck exists then yes im sure people use buses instead of sitting in traffic.
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Dec 15, 2015 20:13
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sitting on a bus stuck in traffic is most definitely not better than sitting in a car stuck in traffic.
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Dec 15, 2015 20:32
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that 15% probably also came at a cost of 30% increased car traffic on the remaining lanes
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Dec 15, 2015 21:26
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mishaq posted:shagger was wrong maybe if you like sitting shoulder to shoulder with stinky people a bus is for you. cars are infinitely more comfortable.
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Dec 15, 2015 21:30
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that 15% increase is also still only between 2 points that aren't the ones you want to start at or go to and the bus is still smelly and cramped.
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Dec 15, 2015 21:34
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:if a bus/train car is totally empty, it's because there's a stinky person on board. so you're either shoulder to shoulder OR there's a horrifying stench. all of the buses are empty which makes the 15% increase pointless cause everyone is driving and you've made the cars less efficient.
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Dec 15, 2015 21:35
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would still rather slit my own throat along with everyone else.
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Dec 15, 2015 21:52
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or more likely just get rid of the people mandating the taxes, not that they'd ever get into office in the first place.
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Dec 15, 2015 21:52
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:like most americans, i don't actually ride buses ever the problem is every time they vote to expand or continue transit its always the worst kinds like buses.
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Dec 15, 2015 23:10
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im fine w/ taxes and fees and tolls for good transit but buses are very bad transit.
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Dec 15, 2015 23:22
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like if you're a big enough city that you need public transit you can afford subway or etrains. otherwise you're kidding yourself about your size and everyone can just walk.
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Dec 15, 2015 23:22
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You can get around Boston fine walking and riding the t. Maybe live in better cities?
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Dec 15, 2015 23:57
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infernal machines posted:yeah, if my earlier network effect post didn't make it clear, it's very important to have transit stops within~250m of any given residence. that will always mandate the use of buses in anything but the highest density ubran core areas, but it's critical to making the system usable for the people who need it most. everywhere worth going is
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Dec 16, 2015 01:59
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or maybe consider that steetcars are a bad form of transit
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Dec 20, 2015 20:35
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Progressive JPEG posted:200k town in developing nation with cold winters and hot summers: off-street bike lanes and gigabit not a problem I don't see any bicycle lanes there. only road and sidewalk
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Dec 29, 2015 01:05
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mishaq posted:http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/12/28/deep-south-4/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_deepsouthfour-136pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory more like :publictranspoort:
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Dec 29, 2015 01:05
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mishaq posted:the northeast corridor definitely has the density lol the northeast corridor would never be able to build a high speed train because everyone would demand that it stop in their town reducing the maximum speed to 50mph.
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Dec 29, 2015 18:16
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Awia posted:shaggar unable to envision a world where there is a slow train and a fast train on the same stretch the maximum speed of the train is irrelevant when it has to make stops every 15 miles
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Dec 30, 2015 17:19
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the Amtrak downeaster would be faster than a car if it did not stop between Portland and North Station.
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Dec 30, 2015 17:20
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Cygni posted:
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Jan 9, 2016 02:12
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infernal machines posted:shags already lives in this world, it's called maine we have all of them and they're bad. the train could be good but it stops too much
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Jan 9, 2016 18:15
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haha there was a dude riding a recumbent bike out in the snow but it was like a weird taller recumbent bike and he had a go pro on lmao. bicyclists are the worst "people"
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on my Microsoft Lumia 950 running Windows 10 Phone for WIndows Phones QR code reading is so fast you don't even have time to align the code before the phone finds it and reads it.
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