If I had to spend an hour on the subway to get to work every day I would want to, but wouldn't have to, fucking kill myself, because some crackhead pushing me onto the tracks or shanking me in the middle of my commute for literally no reason would do it for me.
I wonder how many of them actually do live in "walkable areas" but just can't be assed to walk more than ten minutes to get somewhere.
I wonder how many of them actually do live in cities with decent public transit but just can't be assed to use it if its less convenient than an uber
How convenient for Jason. He says "there's no facts to this" then when he's provided the facts he says it's perfectly normal and implemented in hundreds of European cities (which I'm skeptical of btw), implying that what the other person just said was correct, but apparently you're not allowed to post facts because people might draw the wrong conclusion from them.
Most of the Southeastern United States is regularly so hot and humid that it's against Osha Regulations to do more than 10 to 15 minutes of work at a time. This is for most of the year, not a week stretch or two. If the project is important enough, they'll pay 10x the amount to have people start work at 4 am so they can end the work day by noon.
I've mentioned it before, either here or in another thread. I know a lot of professional bicyclist types, and they might ride 40 to 100 miles a day for pleasure but they won't do it for work.
There are hundreds of middle sized cities in the Southeastern USA that were built before cars existed and are full of the claimed walkable cities. No one walks if they can help it. It's too hot and humid, the margin of safety doesn't exist at all. The only people who take busses are people too old and poor to do anything else and they mostly use them to go to dialysis appointments otherwise they rely on friends and family to drive them. This isn't rough terrain either, this is less than 1% grade of height at any one time. The train tracks exist to move freight and that's it. Anyone else chooses cars or planes.
I think I read there was a time limit on how long train cars could block a road, and it wasn't an hour.
It happens regularly in my hometown, which I won't mention.
Sure, they could go full jackboot and send soldiers to your house to murder you, the question is how far someone within the state would have to bend the rules that keep everyone passive to fuck you over. If it's some tiny deviation such as adding you to a no ride list, then all it takes is some petty bureaucrat in the correct position as we've seen with the random ISP employees that briefly blackholed this website, while shutting down your car with some deep state remote tech or suspending your licence arbitrarily causes more problems.
With urban transport, the state needs to do a China-tier (or airline-tier, LOL) mandatory ID plus checkpoints/other monitoring to ride in order to effectively have a no-ride list. This is not very common outside China, and not even they had it before covid passes gave them a justification to block anyone they want from riding the train. But hey, any country that’s oppressive enough can do whatever it takes to implement such a mandatory ID system for everyone and try to achieve compliance with it. You also have to make the system reasonably proofed against fare evaders riding without any ticket or ID (about 5-10% of all ridership).
Safe he will not be, ketamine I have overdosed on, drive anyway I will
Holy shit I don't even know where to start with the crazy amount of doublethink and insane logic here. All I can say is they must be deliberately ignoring actual crime here to a fault, such that when people maliciously and deliberately attempt to murder others with their cars (and it's not just a regular accident that they call "traffic violence" and then accuse the traffic engineers who designed the road of murdering them instead), they blame the cars instead of the criminals.
Oakland...
