Comment on Sitting in traffic

Wataba@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  shitty big vehicle that is constantly jerking and rumbling

  So get better mass transit. Metros in most of asia are comfortable enough to take a nap and significantly faster than cars, and at least in Japan even the buses are smooth enough I can nap.

  crowded around strangers

  Imagine how much less crowded it would be if so much space wasn’t wasted on car infrastructure.

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• rockerface@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The reason for all of the inconveniences you’ve listed is the car-centric urban infrastructure. So yeah, fuck cars.

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• OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I don’t want to be crowded around strangers, feeling awkward and anxious, in a shitty big vehicle that is constantly jerking and rumbling and takes 4x as long to get where I need to go.

  Bicycling would alleviate all of these … except for the last one. (Now it takes 10x as long to get where you need to go. But it’s not crowded, no social anxiety, no shitty big vehicle, less jerking and no rumbling…)

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  • BussyCat@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My 3 mile bike ride takes 2 minutes longer door to door than driving.

    As has been repeated a few hundred times in this thread already, the part that makes it takes so long is car centric infrastructure. If you live in suburbia where you have a population density of 1k/mi2 (400/km2) you will have to travel a much more significant distance than if you live in a place that has 9k/mi2 (3500/km2)

    Then with less car centric infrastructure the benefit of having parking right next to work starts to go away and the extra space can be used to shorten commutes as well

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• smeg@infosec.pub ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My trains, trams, and buses are rarely crowded. Maybe at peak rush hour.

  High frequency makes them not crowded. You’re complaining about a poorly designed public transit system, which is probably all you’ve ever encountered.

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