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  • Bangs42@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    If you look on Google Maps, there’s this super convenient line of trees that goes from the next large city north-ish of my town to the largest city in the state, south of me. It runs right through my town. If you go looking in that line of trees, you’ll find abandoned train tracks.

    There was a day when someone (not me, I’m not that old) could get on a train in my town and go to virtually any medium to large city. Now, we can’t even get funding to connect the walking trail segments that parallel portions of those abandoned tracks between towns.

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    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Fuck cars

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  • DupaCycki@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just one more lane bro. And remove the bicycle lanes. That’ll fix everything.

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  • bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I almost had jury duty a while back so I thought I might take public transit to that. Car trip is 25-30 minutes. Public is 2.5 hours and I would arrive 45 minutes before the courthouse opened.

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    • sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is why we need better public transit. Sure, there’ll always be some inefficiancies, but in quite a few countries public transit is a very reasonable option

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      • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Sorry, car dealers are major contributors to sales taxes so the best I can do is one more lane, bro

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  • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    All we need is to figure out how to have public transit generate accelerating, double-digit profit growth year-on-year, so that VCs all start bankrolling public transit startups, and then all our transit problems will be solved! /s

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    • Cataphract@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      You’re joking… but look into “brightline” with the Florida shit show and how they’re now getting further public subsidiaries to make a “profitable” HSR (highspeedrail) between CA and NV. Doing exactly what you’re stating but with their ears plugged while screaming as loud as they can.

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    • SippyCup@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If you find a way to link public transit to the further oppression of brown people or the extraction of oil, you’d get it in every city in America within 5 years.

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      • Demdaru@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        And that’s exactly why freight trains have no problems existing in USA.

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    • ckmnstr@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I can’t believe you didn’t use the word “disrupt”. Huge No-No. Why would I fund something that doesn’t explicitly disrupt the public transportation space?

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      • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Just use AI to disrupt public transportation space! On the blockchain!

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    • TheThrillOfTime@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What we really need to do is figure out how to make public transit profitable to the automobile lobby.

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    • wolfpack86@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The thing is it can be quite profitable for the biggest possible VC firm out there. The government.

      The Interstate System spurned so much economic growth and thereby new tax revenue. Weve just pissed it away on stupid shit and have failed to maintain critical bridges and things like that.

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      • bryndos@fedia.io ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yes, they just have to "run it at a loss". Instead of trying to drive up the fares trying to reach "profitable" levels.

        A lot of the savings should come from reduced road deterioration and lower road maintenance costs.

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  • BilSabab@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    that’s why god created marshrutkas

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  • frog@feddit.uk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Living in NYC, I had to go to downtown from uptown everyday.

    Train: under 20 minutes.

    Bus: over an hour.

    The cool thing was I could use the same MetroCard for both. Sometimes I would take the bus because the scenery is nice to look at, or I wanted to read a book.

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    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nowadays I think you just tap any debit/credit card on the new system for NYC

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      • TheRealKuni@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        And Mamdani promises to make the buses free!

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  • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The bus doesn’t even stop in my town anymore.

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  • myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    30-45 minute drive to work, depending on traffic. Bus would be 3.5 hours. No trains.

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m almost 40 and I’ve spent about 9 months during which there was public transport between me and my job, and I probably could have walked from Holt ave to Lewis street faster than the GTA bus.

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I live about 30 minutes walking from my workplace, that usually takes about 15 minutes by car (20 at rush hour).

    It takes more than 90 minutes to get there by bus.

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    • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      30min walking is like 2km distance if walking pace is 4kmph, 3km if 6kmph. About 8min if you cycling.

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      • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yes, it’s 3km.

        Takes about 20 minutes on a bicycle because you can’t go through the same path. And it’s stressful.

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    • RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Huh. My office is about 30 minutes walking too, but 5 minutes drive and about 15 by bus (only because there are literally 3 different routes that happen to run between a couple blocks from my house to a block from my work, so the fucking half hour frequency doesn’t apply - I specifically live near bus lines always but they slashed the frequency) . I actually bike in every day unless it’s raining.

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      • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        so the fucking half hour frequency doesn’t apply

        No, you misunderstood.

        If I decide to go by bus, it will take more than 90 minutes of travel time. The wait time isn’t counted there. (I would need to take 2 buses, one is hourly, the other one is frequent.)

        Before I started working from home, I used to walk.

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    • gigachad@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Perfect bike route

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  • gamenac@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Living in a bigger Florida city for a while, I realized the bus system was not for me. Besides way less than stellar routing to get from point A to point 1 to point H to point L to point B, they changed how they handled pricing more than a few times while I was there. Add the fact that even by car you’re looking at about 30 minutes time, and who knows how long for the bus, made me a diehard cyclist. Most trips were comparable to driving with the added benefits that cycling has. Unfortunately there is almost no incentive for cities to upgrade public transport that enough people will get behind, even if it makes the most sense.

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    • RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Yeah that’s where I am, and with some exceptions (there has been a one-bus route to the university at all my residences, like walk a few blocks, get on a bus, relax, end of the line is the school) it’s so difficult to use the bus system, one transfer and you are hosed. If I had a magic wand, I’d reinstate the trolley lines to their original farthest reach plus stadium and business districts, make all buses run every 15 minutes (the routes are reasonable) and make it all fare free, or an easy and cheap subscription, wave phone or ticket.

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  • NeedyPlatter@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Jokes on you the GTA 's (Greater Toronto areas) public transit system is like this too! 🤩 I hate it here

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    • BlackVenom@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Torontos system def needs work, but it’s by far better than most. Presumably it really falls apart outside of downtown though. Driving is for sure hell… You’d think it’d be easier to at least convince people to bump public trans to make room on the expressway.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean…to be fair, the people I’ve met from Toronto are always the most selfish self entitled main character syndrome assholes I run into. It’s like Canadas version of Chicago. I’m honestly surprised Toronto doesn’t have some common food that they try to be “famous” for. Chicago deep dish isn’t pizza, it’s lasagna cosplaying as pizza. I could eat pizza every day. I could only eat Chicago style once a year or so.

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      • Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨30⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        What’s wrong with Chicago? I moved to the area a year ago and everyone is pretty nice…

        If you have a complaint about Chicagoan food, I think Jepsons Mallort is a bigger complaint than deep dish.

        I don’t know how you can compare deep dish, a style of pizza, to lasagna. They are much different…

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    • romanticremedy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah if u r outside of major street or subway, good luck. Streetcars are often slower than running lmao

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