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[Car Won't Crank]

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.

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"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.

That's certainly a Brightline - bright with blood.

 

[JJLiautaud]

Speaking of Brightline this is what the ride is like:

Edit added the video of the orlando spur he took:

This guy is great if you want a mild dose of train autism.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Britbong here. I thought it was also famous for it's clean toilets?

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.

There is a station right next to Aventura Mall but the mall does quite well on its own, and it's on the wrong side of the road anyway.

Britbong here. I thought it was also famous for it's clean toilets?

It is.

 

[quaawaa]

Speaking of Brightline this is what the ride is like:

Edit added the video of the orlando spur he took:

This guy is great if you want a mild dose of train autism.

The segment from West Palm Beach to Miami looks like a normal commuter rail line, not HSR.

The video guy mentioned the train has a top speed of 79 mph on that segment (which is similar to other commuter rail lines like BART) but has a lot of slow zones plus station stops, meaning the average speed is lower. Outside of rush hour, it's probably faster to drive there on the highways. He also mentioned that there was some form of security checkpoint, so there goes one of the "advantages" that HSR advocates say trains have over planes.

The major problem is that it is incredibly expensive. For the 45 mile/45 minute drive between Boca Raton and Downtown Miami, the video creator spent $52 with a promotion for a first class seat (he didn't say how much the economy ticket cost him).

From Brightline's website, an economy ticket for that segment tomorrow costs costs $31.50 in the early morning and late at night, $56.50 during both morning and evening rush hours, and $41.50 between rush hours. I also checked a month out and the prices are even more. A round trip is over $100 if taken during reasonable hours.

They also sell a commuter rail pass with 40 rides a month for $399. I know the carfuckers would say that $400/mo is cheaper than owning a car, except that is significantly more expensive than just driving 90 miles a day and the Brightline membership is only good for a commute so one would still have all the non-marginal costs of a car for non-commute travel. The sample commute costs $210/mo (half of what Brightline costs with the pass) for 20 working days assuming $3.50 gas in a 30 mpg car.

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This commentor did the same math as me (but for the full Orlando-Miami route):

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This commentor is the first use case I've seen that makes sense for the HSR segment (especially now that the Disney World to Port of Miami route isn't happening because the Disney World station was canceled), but it doesn't sound like that common of a situation:

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lmao:

 

[Ensok]

That guy is full of it. In California do you know who's moving to those suburbs and loves them? Fucking Indians. They love those suburbs and bedroom communities like that. They're all over living in these communities and having long ass commutes into the city, they choose that on purpose. It's not white Americans who have been in the States for centuries who are choosing these and making sure they're profitable and have huge demand. Indians, many of them straight from their shit hole home country, are the primary buyers now.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

That guy is full of it.

Yeah, but what urbanist isn't?

 

[Here to Gawk]

I heard the claim that it is expensive to own a car in Japan because the maintenance of road is done by the those who pay car taxes.
How true is that?

Vehicle ownership is expensive in Japan because:

1) There are several annual and biennial taxes levied on vehicles. Some of that goes to road upkeep, yes, but not all.

2) Japan requires extremely strict and expensive vehicle inspections.

3) You are required to prove that you have an off-road parking spot. For many, this involves long-term parking spot rentals.

 

[FamicomGorby]

Britbong here. I thought it was also famous for it's clean toilets?

I guess but they're also really crowded and annoying to go to since people have a habit of parking their cars at the pump and then going inside. Which happens everywhere in the US, and I hate it, but it's especially a problem at Bucee's when they're so big. I've been to em and while an interesting novelty it's not really my kind of thing when I just wanna get some gas and pee.

Also their food is expensive, like $8 for a basic chicken sandwich.

 

[Apple Porcupine]

Jason is leaking into normie YouTube, with a clip of his trucks video being featured in a Drew Gooden video.

Most of the video is about the Cybertruck so I doubt anyone will actually stop to notice or care about this one point in a larger video (and it's on pace to become his most popular video anyway at over 5 million views now), but it's just another reminder that people will watch and take everything he says as gospel without stopping to think or check anything.

 

[BulkForceFive]

Jason is leaking into normie YouTube, with a clip of his trucks video being featured in a Drew Gooden video.

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Most of the video is about the Cybertruck so I doubt anyone will actually stop to notice or care about this one point in a larger video (and it's on pace to become his most popular video anyway at over 5 million views now), but it's just another reminder that people will watch and take everything he says as gospel without stopping to think or check anything.

I can't count how many times I've gotten in my vehicle without looking in front of it and ended up running over eight children who happened to be sitting in a line directly in front of it.

I don't know where these fuckin' kids keep coming from or why it never seems to make the news, but it's starting to creep me out.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

I guess but they're also really crowded and annoying to go to since people have a habit of parking their cars at the pump and then going inside. Which happens everywhere in the US, and I hate it, but it's especially a problem at Bucee's when they're so big. I've been to em and while an interesting novelty it's not really my kind of thing when I just wanna get some gas and pee.

Also their food is expensive, like $8 for a basic chicken sandwich.

With fast food the way it is now that's not too outrageous, and Buc-ee's stuff is prepared fresh. (Though you can eat cheaper at QuikTrip).

I can't count how many times I've gotten in my vehicle without looking in front of it and ended up running over eight children who happened to be sitting in a line directly in front of it.

I don't know where these fuckin' kids keep coming from or why it never seems to make the news, but it's starting to creep me out.

I can't how no one is calling out how psychotic these "kill eight kids!" videos are. Besides the veiled "if you drive a truck you want to kill children" (projection?) these are the same people who once mocked "think of the kids"-style emotional arguments, and now they're trying to use them as the same meat moral shield.

 

[WelperHelper99]

I can't how no one is calling out how psychotic these "kill eight kids!" videos are. Besides the veiled "if you drive a truck you want to kill children" (projection?) these are the same people who once mocked "think of the kids"-style emotional arguments, and now they're trying to use them as the same meat moral shield.

These are also the same people that don't want kids at all, but want to prey on regular people's emotions when it comes to children. Hypocrisy knows no bounds.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

I guess but they're also really crowded and annoying to go to since people have a habit of parking their cars at the pump and then going inside. Which happens everywhere in the US, and I hate it, but it's especially a problem at Bucee's when they're so big. I've been to em and while an interesting novelty it's not really my kind of thing when I just wanna get some gas and pee.

Also their food is expensive, like $8 for a basic chicken sandwich.

Bucees is by far the best rest stop to get some gas and pee. The bathrooms are very clean and make for very relaxing shits and pisses. The food is fair priced for the quality. I got a 7 layer burrito there for about $9 and it filled me up until dinner easily.

 

[Markass the Worst]

these are the same people who once mocked "think of the kids"-style emotional arguments, and now they're trying to use them as the same meat moral shield.

These are also the same people that don't want kids at all, but want to prey on regular people's emotions when it comes to children. Hypocrisy knows no bounds.

>Think of the kids!
Ok, so we should keep these weird perverts in dresses away from childr-
>Not like that you evil J.K. Rowling transphobe!

 

[BulkForceFive]

Even better comparison: find an Irish urbanist who doesn't want F-150s sold in the Republic 'in order to protect the children' and ask him if he'll sign off on expelling all migrants after that one stabbed three kids and their consort in Dublin.

 

[KittyGremlin]

Jason is leaking into normie YouTube, with a clip of his trucks video being featured in a Drew Gooden video.

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Most of the video is about the Cybertruck so I doubt anyone will actually stop to notice or care about this one point in a larger video (and it's on pace to become his most popular video anyway at over 5 million views now), but it's just another reminder that people will watch and take everything he says as gospel without stopping to think or check anything.

Because this is what kids do, sit in a neat line right in front of a parked truck while remaning quiet enough that the driver doesn't notice before entering the vehicle and moving forward.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Because this is what kids do, sit in a neat line right in front of a parked truck while remaning quiet enough that the driver doesn't notice before entering the vehicle and moving forward.

I really want to get some nicely done professional photographs done with the same setup, but in front of a school bus, metro bus, light rail, etc.

But the last time I tried to round up a bunch of kids in a borrowed bus everyone got mad at me for some reason.

 

[KittyGremlin]

But the last time I tried to round up a bunch of kids in a borrowed bus everyone got mad at me for some reason.

I know, right. If anything happens it's not like they'd hate to make more.

 

[LaxerBRO]

Jason is leaking into normie YouTube, with a clip of his trucks video being featured in a Drew Gooden video.

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Most of the video is about the Cybertruck so I doubt anyone will actually stop to notice or care about this one point in a larger video (and it's on pace to become his most popular video anyway at over 5 million views now), but it's just another reminder that people will watch and take everything he says as gospel without stopping to think or check anything.

Why not have them lie down and put on guille suits?

An objective test would have them standing.

 

[Lemon-Lime Turpentine]

The myth of unsafe public transit is about to be deboonked once and for all.

Link / Archive
(Admittedly, I am not at all familiar with the Highway of Tears. I'll take his context at face value.)

The gist of the argument is: Because of the abductions on this highway, it's less risky for the Indigenous Canadians to take a buss than to hitchhike with strangers. Therefore, public transit is safer than private transportation. Carbrains will eternally cope and seethe.

Some snippets:

If they never caught the abductors, I'm not really sure how you'd know that they were racist whiteys. Let's not worry about that. What's important is that highways are racist.

Uh oh carcucks, a heckin' survey! You've just been SCIENCE'D!
(It doesn't help that despite including five citations below this, none of them actually seem to include the poll he's talking about. My best guess is the poll was in the fourth link. Unfortunately, it has 404'd, and I could not find an archived copy.)

Well, it isn't just cars that are to blame. It's also racism and capitalism. I'm not exactly sure why cars are tainted by the racist influence of the white devil while busses are immune.

Oh, never mind. Cars are actually a good thing, as long as we give them to Indigenous folx for free.

Offended, carbrains?

In conclusion, I think it's hard to argue. In order to stop white colonialism from killing Indigenous folx in Canada, carbrains need to check their privilege and embrace public transit.