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Not Just Bikes / r/fuckcars / Urbanists / New Urbanism / Car-Free / Anti-Car - People and grifters who hate personal transport, freedom, cars, roads, suburbs, and are obsessed with city planning and urban design
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Hahah fucking called it. Literally pledges allegiance to a king who is the head of the state religion like a faggot and worries about theocratic oligarchies.
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Imagine having a king. Our king figure, the President, gets the boot 8 years max, and while he has power, unlike the cucked Bongs, he's still tied with the courts as the weakest branch. That's how leadership should be. A fucking burden. Bet this cuck thinks the King is God.
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Here is a church fun fact. The Church of England is a Christian lolcow. Terrible attendance rates, homosexual advocacy, and it's branches in Africa are literally trying to split. Yeah the King is the head. Of a church no one goes to.
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Wow looks like it belongs in the same category of the Jesus fish bumper sticker and the peace logo you'd find on a trashed up VW Samba van.
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I'd look to see if brightline is profitable if you ignore the jews taking all the interest. The drop in short-distance passengers is expected as most of those are now long distance, if you're riding the train you'll ride it as close as you can get to your final destination. (I can't find the current numbers but it looks like $149 million a year in interest expenses on the $4 billion in bonds.)
If I read https://emma.msrb.org/P21789452-P21373718-P21812728.pdf right, they had an operating loss of $156 million last year which does NOT include the interest. By my calculations they need to double ridership to become profitable there. ($70 million is deprecation and amortization which may be jewish accounting tricks, to be fair).
If I read https://emma.msrb.org/P21789452-P21373718-P21812728.pdf right, they had an operating loss of $156 million last year which does NOT include the interest. By my calculations they need to double ridership to become profitable there. ($70 million is deprecation and amortization which may be jewish accounting tricks, to be fair).
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I don't think anyone is arguing this new rail system needs to be profitable immediately. But it is troubling that they built the high speed rail all of you asked for, and they're still in the red years later. That could EASILY turn into decades if ridership doesn't pick up.
But you're communists. Autistic communists. Cost doesn't matter. It's the car's fault, not the market, or the simple fact that people don't want to ride the super fast Choo Choo for any variety of reasons.
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The real cope is that people ARE riding the fast choo-choo; it's basically everything you could ask of for high-speed rail between two relatively close metro areas. It's door-to-door travel time from Orland Airport to downtown miami is competitive or beats the car. Millions are riding it, and it's still not charging enough (if they doubled ticket prices, they'd be in the green; if everyone bought the first class ticket they'd be profitable.
That early AM train leaving Orlando at 4:50 AM seems to be the moneymaker; regular ticket is $154 and first class is $174; whereas the same train leaving at 7:50 AM is $49/$134. Cheapest premium is $114.
Bitches be using this as a cummuter! Return prices show a similar bump around 5PM, so rail getting you into Miami before 9 and leaving after 5 is premium. If they hold this for 5-10 years, people will start using it more and more as a commuter rail into Miami for work, driving populations up in the smaller areas like Mouth Rat (Bocaraton).
TIL that orlando has a train lol - https://sunrail.com/maps-schedules/map/
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Well that's the issue. Double the price, kill the market. Stay the course, break even in 10 years. And that's what makes them seethe. If everyone rode it, ditched cars, it could break even far quicker. But that's not how life works. For the next decade, the fuckcars crowd is going to have to eat crow how their new super train is a money sink. And that makes me lul.
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I think this is the reason that some of them hate airplanes so much, because we all know that deep down they're just train autists trying to make more train (and this is arguably quite a decent goal, trains are cool) but planes kick train ass so hard it's not even funny.
If you took away TSA planes would beat trains even on horribly short distances, because they don't require any fucking land except at the endpoints! The carfuckers should really all be planefuckers ...
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Thing is from a engineering perspective trains are awesome. Absolute titans. There have even been armored trains with cannons and shit. Fuckcars takes the awesome away. Instead of seeing trains as part of a ecosystem, they want it to be the only mode of transportation. And that is incredibly sad in a way I can't completely describe.
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Why would they want to work there anyway? It's pretty much all car drivers as customers, and we know how they feel about that. It would be like posting about how you hate Jews all the time and then get mad that you can't get a job for hosting a bar mitzvah; either you're a hypocritical dunce or look like you want cause problems.
That was how the early "transit companies" operated; all their money was made on rush hour operations. They started losing money when a few car owners (a small minority at the time) discovered a loophole that allowed them to legally give someone a ride for a nickel.
I wouldn't be optimistic about Brightline since they're going to build HSR (presumably grade separated) in Las Vegas that will be a money-loser for years to come, even if the Florida operation does okay. As for its operations in Florida, it's not surprising they blame cars for its failure, which would also imply that there's nothing special about other transit companies operate. I'm even surprised that they're not talking about if Brightline purchased or built malls at its stations like the Japan Railways Group do...but that would imply that even if there were "Brightline Malls" with a Brightline-owned department store and/or supermarket, it would make it painfully clear that retail would be the moneymaker.
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With how much urbanists go on about pedestrian fatalities and how trains would be the solution to them I hope they never actually look into Brightline.
"Uber has never made a single profit in its whole existence" well that changed roughly a month after this post, give the guy here some credit since he wasn't wrong at the time but it's pretty funny that the universe changed to make this one person wrong specifically.
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That one will come down to the station location, and how far it actually is from the strip.
If they can get close enough, and get casinos onboard, they may make a killing.
Also wow the brightline has a higher death toll than the farms. Impressive.
Huh never realized that the Vegas airport is ass-backwards, if they had the terminal on the other side it'd be right in the strip.
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i owned this exact car (G1 Honda Insight, lovely city car I absolutely adored it) and i just bought a used Serris Bones trunk rack off craigslist for $50 and mounted my gravel bike to that because im not a total retard.Who needs a truck when you can just pop the hatch?
The boot space is absolutely tiny in an Insight.
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Also note that thing covered in trees in the background that they never mention. I'm amazed that none of these fags ever seem to think about why automobiles became popular in the first place.
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AI art used to create a world that doesn't exist. Leftists angered because AI, insistence it's ok because he's being lazy for the right reasons (first time I've ever seen "low effort" used as an excuse for oneself).
Something funny that a lot of these people do is complain about people who cycle for sport giving cyclists in general a bad name, this time around even going to the furthest leap in logic possible by conspiring that these "men of bad behavior" actually all own giant cars and trucks.
E-begging, even though I thought being free of car ownership automatically saved you thousands per year:
(Source 1, 2, 3)
Something funny that a lot of these people do is complain about people who cycle for sport giving cyclists in general a bad name, this time around even going to the furthest leap in logic possible by conspiring that these "men of bad behavior" actually all own giant cars and trucks.
E-begging, even though I thought being free of car ownership automatically saved you thousands per year:
(Source 1, 2, 3)