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Wait, we're discussing the wrong thing entirely.
This woman took the bus for a one mile hike while she was in college? Like, in her twenties she looked at the prospect of walking for just over a kilometer and a half, a distance you can apparently cover by bike faster than by bus, and she went "nah, I need mechanical help for that".
This happened in the US, didn't it?
Wall-E is the future.
Do you take the escalator, or do you walk up the stairs ?
What a weakling you are for choosing the escalator.
Edit :
It seems that the irony got lost : most people just take the escalator for a mere 50 steps, just as most people would just take the bus if it's convenient. So all people in this thread shaming her are quite ridiculous.
As for me, I take the stairs instead of the elevator daily (5th floor) and wouldn't get on the bus because I have strong social anxiety.
Walk because its clear and I can get up it faster than waiting for the morons on the escalator that don't know how to use steps. Also I often have a bike with me and its easier to just lift that and walk up the stairs.
I walk up the escalator.
Or, if it's so busy that you can't comfortably do that I take the stairs.
I also take the stairs instead of the elevator at home because it's only a handful of floors and man, I am already old, decaying and extremely out of shape. My knees would fuse solid otherwise.
Oooo ByGorou u got f'd uuuup!!
No, but unseriously, why shame people for being complacent? Maybe semi-seriously; like, 35% seriously, at best.
Edit: And maybe more seriously but still mostly casually uncaring, you never know what lives other people leave. Also, a campus shuttle is actually amazing if you think about it. Personally, I'd rather be able to do a nice busride to class, but I'm well aware that I can't waste valuable sleep time with that. And, risk being stinky around other people? No thanks. Also, having to deal with upkeep, storage, and security of a bike? Blegh. It would be cool though to live in a culture that both had the bikes and infrastructure, and didn't have the thievery.
Also, you gotta remember, a lot of the US is very far apart and is so imbued with car culture and infrastructure. Plus, we, like the rest of humans, just can't deal with our problems, and just had another major ~~setback~~ existential challenge.
That was meant to be ironic but it got lost it seems ;-;
What I meant was that, If you see stairs next to the escalator, most people just take the escalator. Same as if a bus is going where you are going to, most just take it without thinking.
I wanted to show that shaming her for taking the bus was ridiculous, just as shaming people taking the escalator instead of the stairs was ridiculous.
Man, since you want me at 35% serious I'll come clean and say that when I poked at Americans I genuinely didn't think the response would be "greentext isn't real and she didn't exist but also she is my cousin and I know for a fact she was disabled and she NEEDS that bus". I don't know if I should own the trolling and not acknowledge that the only part of it that worked was the splash zone and not the direct impact.
But also, the OP explicitly says the distance was one mile. I know the US is big, but I didn't realize it was big because universal expansion had made one mile larger than it is elsewhere. I guess that explains a lot.
It also explains a lot that "a bike chain" is "upkeep, storage and security" and that a ten minute walk is wasted sleep time that makes you stinky.
Alright, alright, let me get back to being somewhat real for a second. I've been to the US a bunch and I don't have a driver's license, so I walk everywhere and it's genuinely shocking to me both how poor walking infrastructure is, but also to what degree Americans consider anything not directly next door to be "not walking distance". I get that it's cultural, but it's also deceptively soul crushing. I refuse to leave the house unless it's on fire and I still find spending time in many areas of the US physically distressing. And Canada, too, don't think that having competent health care and a few extra busses means it's different over there.
You aren't wrong. I laughed out loud at universal expansion
Escalators really aren't that common where I live. The architecture is mainly regular stairs and then there's a lift somewhere nearby for disabled people.
A few malls built in the late 90's/early 00's tried emulating the American escalator mall look but it didn't really take off.
My university was literally all uphill from dorms with traffic and 90 degree heat. You took the fucking bus.
Lemmy: Cars are a plague and shouldn't exist, communities need functional public transit
Also Lemmy: Someone used public transit when they could have walked? Pathetic.
Both can be true. I love public transport, but I wouldn't take the bus for 1.5 km. I'd walk or, at most, take my bike.
Yes, also if it's a little rainy outside.
You might take the bus on the many make days a year there's a heat advisory to stay indoors In my state (USA). Plus often when it rains here, it's not a little rainy. It goes from sunny to pouring in 15 minutes, torrential downpour for 20 minutes and right back to sunny. Pretty unpredictable. But mostly I don't think it's nuts to take the bus to class when there's time pressure and then walk home when there's not.
What if you're carrying a heavy backpack and the bus stop is right next to your class?
Don't even bother, gatekeepers gonna gatekeep
You're expecting Americans to rawdog their life?
To be clear, this did not happen at all
Oh, you go around telling kids about the tooth fairy, too? Get in the spirit.
How about you get in the spirit of doing your chemistry homework instead of posting on lemmy
Oh, man, the last time I had some of that was in 1997. I'd trade you posting on Lemmy for another go at that.
In 1997. Screw being a teenager in the 21st century.
Screw existing in the 21st century
Fair point. But hey, at least I have less of it to go and better social security.
Oh man, would I love to take back my MLL knowledge and build an AI to farm bitcoins for me.
And also somehow anon was a gay man.
I'm sure the physically disabled students at that college appreciate you letting them know that you think one mile is too short for a bus ride
Are we counting obesity as one of those disabilities?
Fwiw as far as the reasonableness of taking a bus 1 mile, that's 16 minutes at a brisk walk. Less at a very fast walk. Depending on traffic, number of stops, etc., a bus could take about 10 minutes to go the same distance, probably less. So you're definitely saving time, even if it's not a huge amount. You're also saving effort and sweat, depending on how fast you go and the weather.
When I was in uni, I would regularly walk the 1.2 km to campus. But I would catch a bus the 1.8 km (remembering that a mile is 1.6) to the shops. Because it's a hot unshaded route with a significant uphill. Plus I had to carry the shopping. Whereas the walk to uni was flat, shady, and I rarely had to carry more than just a laptop. And also there literally wasn't a bus that could take me.
So yeah, depending on how all the specifics fit together, I don't see anything wrong with taking a bus 1.6 km.
In the Netherlands, students get free public transport. If there's a bus coming that you can use for free, why not?
It could be cold, windy, or really hot out. Or she doesn't want to walk a mile with all her school stuff, or she doesn't have great mobility. Also there are plenty of 30+ people going to college
It could also just be made up, maybe stop looking to get outraged
American infrastructure is so heavily skewed against pedestrians in pretty much every city that isn't NYC. While large college campuses tend to be more pedestrian friendly, it still isn't great. And since most Americans aren't walking a mile everyday, when you then couple that with a backpack with materials needed for two different college classes like textbooks, laptop and charger, or notebooks and pens, it can be difficult for some ti walk that distance for whatever reason.
I don't know why people are still surprised that the country designed to punish people who are too poor to afford a car has so little pedestrian and cycling.
Yeah DAE amerikkka bad!?
It is bad yeah
Lots of universities have free busses that you can just walk on, no pass or anything needed that loop around campus. They're so frequent and convenient that using them is often just the routine, even if it's not literally faster. It's easy to get into the habit of waiting for the bus on cold days, and you keep it in the summer.
A bus that's convenient in the US? What are you smoking?
I could regularly beat city buses on 3-5 mile rides in the city. They have to stop all over the place and the routes between places are never direct.
But this greentext is probably made up anyway.
I beat it consistently on my 10 mile commute. In fact, on a crappy weather day (lots of snow), I barely missed the bus, so I caught up and rode it the rest of the way.
Buses aren't fast, but they are warm and dry. It takes ~20 min to get from the stop near my house and the transfer I'd take to work, which was ~6 miles (~10 km). That's ~18mph (~30km/h), which is doable on a bike. My whole commute took about 40min, 30 on a good wind day. Taking the bus with a transfer took about 45 min.
Aside from most greentexts being fabricated stories, how long do you think they have between classes to get moved around on campus?
My Pepsi Co connective tissues are mostly plastic. It's not a durable plastic :(
i also lived a mile from my uni and took the bus sometimes, in my defence, the uni was on a steep ass hill and i lived at the bottom of it
Sounds like public transportation