Who are these "some people". I don't think it's a majority. In fact most comments I see say the opposite.
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Lol at Lemmy being a representation of the public.
Are you assuming that i would only be talking about Lemmy comments?
It's what you hear a lot of on more mainstream media.
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That's a bim!
Subway or aerotrains are great tram just added more mess into the traffic and are dangerous for pedestrians.
Me a guy in infrastructure: hahahahaha... oh wait you were serious. Let me laugh even harder now.
Engineering is to a great extent accepting the givens. Cost disease grows more rampant by the year without showing any signs of letting up. There are ways to fix that but we aren't going to do them. The reason why people are considering solutions like this is because better solutions aren't possible any more.
Yeah so my crippled ass that can’t walk has to somehow get to the train station, then somehow get from the station to my destination, then back again, often times with a bunch of groceries or whatever. Or I could drive directly there and park in a handicap spot, then have a place to load the groceries into, saving me considerable pain and letting me get more done in a single trip
We do need better public transportation, yeah, but I am so tired of all the fuck cars people not giving a single shit about disabled folks
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Does train come pick me up and drop me off again ?
Gotta love dem rural trains.
Sweden has hourly trains that go through 1-2k population mountain villages that connect to all the major cities.
100% possible if the political will is there.
And when it isn't ?
Get it there.
The urban trains are at best the "least bad" option. Even in NYC, which has a very extensive system of mass transit, taking mass transit is slow. For example, if I wanted to visit my friends in Brooklyn right now, mass transit would take an hour and 20 minutes (including about 20 minutes of walking, which isn't fun in bad weather). Driving would be twice as fast even when normal traffic is accounted for. Plus it would be door-to-door and much more comfortable.
I actually have a car but parking it near where I live would cost me $450 a month, so currently I'm leaving it with those friends in Brooklyn (for a fun 2-hour 40-minute round trip to pick it up and then drop it off again whenever I want to drive anywhere). I want a self-driving car because it could stay parked somewhere cheap, come to me, and then go back and park itself when I was done using it.
(I could take a taxi but that would be $65 right now, which is significantly more than 40 minutes of my time costs. I wonder how much of that price is simply taxes... NYC is deliberately making it harder to get around without using mass transit. Can you tell that I don't like living here?)
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