my grandma is too close for a train but too far for a walk, perfect for a bike if we didnt have a left turn onto 55mph highway with no sidewalks as our only route to her
give me fucking bike lanes i hate being trapped in this house because of bad infrastructure, at least a sidewalk to seperate me from traffic
i think if killing pedestrians is a common occurrence for you then you should really stay off the roads.
Killing pedestrians is a common occurance for car based transportation
Got to get Grandma’s heart transplant somehow.
that’s why they want trains
Wow, that’s more than were killed in the WTC terrorist attacks.
But instead of trying to stop it, we buy bigger and bigger vehicles.
Fast trains so that you can be restricted in exactly when you can visit and still pay for it. And then have to walk the rest of the distance from the train station to her house. There is so many flaws people just
failrefuse to see.Good? For people without mobility restrictions having a short walk as part of traveling or commuting is a good thing. And for everything longer than a few minutes there should be bus, tram and light rail access.
And how long of a walk? I’m not walking 15 miles to go see Grandma I’m just gonna drive.
15 miles is solidly within train territory, I’m talking a 5 minute walk. Everything past that should ideally be connected via bus or tram
New York City tried that and we ended up with a subway full of crack addicts, homelessness, public nudity, etc. Trains should either be for a long trip but only once in a while or a last resort in a large city.
last resort
what do you suggest we do in large cities then?
Cars. I mean it works well enough right now and there isn’t any good solution other than them.
Cars in big cities are horrible. Terribly inefficient, requiring orders of magnitude more infrastructure, killing air quality and pedestrians alike, and leading to even more suburban sprawl. Cars are not compatible with high population density.
I visited NYC a while back. The subway impressed me. People call it dirty and say it is full of crackheads. Despite this, it was clean and orderly during my visit.
Is that a public transport problem or a US culture problem?
How often do you ride the subway? Thousands of people take the subway in NYC everyday of all income levels, it’s a pretty big success.
Oh no, I can only take the train to Grandma once or twice per hour* during the daytime! The calamity!
*Yes, those are absolutely realistic time tables for train connections, Europe has those.
Not in us, because cities are more spread out, even with better infrastructure it would still be every 6-7 hours or more.
There are many places in the US with the density of Europe or Asia. And those are all the places trains are being built.
Trains really rule.
Hey, now. Trains do end the occasional pedestrian, but it’s not so much hit as much obliterate
that fast trains will work on electricity generated by burning fossil fuel
Not if wind turbines
