I've ridden LA transit a couple times. Interestingly the one time I saw them checking fares was at a station with fare gates and where I thought was one of the more affluent areas.
Must be new since I haven't gone back there since 2022, honestly woulda done the first one of those there or in macarthur so it makes sense. If they don't raise the height of the half height walls in most stations then people would just jump those instead though.
Lol its only 20 minutes faster than biking while taking an hour, just sounds like they have a really slow system if bikes are close to edging them out. One day these people will realize all people care about when travelling is convenience and tripling your journey length for no real benefit is not that, even if you're burdened by having to drive and dealing with other socal drivers.
The problem with US transit is fat lazy americans will walk about a block or two at most. Which means the damn stations end up being quite close together, which slows down the whole system. Add infrequent service and you've a real winner.
Oh yeah i noticed that with buses there and thought that was weird how they literally have bus stops every single block compared to in china where they're a lot further apart but conversely a lot faster even with more walking involved. I mean the problem with buses in sf especially the ones that go thru chinatown though was the fact that they just were stuck in the same endless car traffic so you combine that with the fact it stops every block or so, at least with the bulk of the muni metro they have their own train space and a subway for almost all of it but they do have that stop proximity problem as well when they run overground along the roads, which is why they're not that fast in some places.
Buses used to be better in the US, at least from what my early childhood memories recall. There used to be a few bus stops nearby me but they've been gone for like 2 decades or more and the only place I see bus stops is in cities every other block instead of spanning various locales that aren't just run down urban hellscapes.
Every country that tried to adopt coin operated bicycles. Once professionals figured locations of tracking chips and locks all it took was one man with a welding torch to retrofit and steal public use bicycles that people did not bother to return in the first place anyway. They end up in storm drain ditch or vandalized
Already kinda pointed this out in my rambly ass post but it bugs the fuck out of me how their solution is never something simple like "add/fix sidewalks and make it legal to use scooters and bikes on them". No their solution is carving out a huge barely used bike lane on roads and paving over some roads turning shit into almost a colossal mall instead of a town structure wise, but ALSO "we totally need to get rid of cars and only use buses and/or trains!" Legit the most logical solution to transport issues is to just add more options, not take them away. People have understood this for fucking millenia and it's how we got so many transport options in the modern day to begin with.
Using scooters and bikes on sidewalks is actually unsafe, by the stats, because every time they exit onto the roadway, they're at a much higher risk of getting plowed into by a car.
Some bike lanes get used. Many of them don't though. And that's because urbanists see them solely as a cranky political statement, and not what they actually are, an (one of many) engineering solution to a problem.
Tell that to the fuckers who set up bike lanes that keep cutting off every block midway through so the bike has to veer into the road lmao. Still I agree with the rest of the stuff. Usually a bike or scooter bumping into something or someone on a sidewalk is gonna do a lot less damage than it hitting a car when having to veer into the road from a bike lane IMO which is why I brought that up as a potential thing,
Maybe not scooters but some rural roads are actually much safer for biking considering there is grassy areas along the side of the road with nothing there you can swerve to get out of a cars way. Mountainous roads perhaps not due to lower visibility. But less traffic on rural roads is better for anything slower than a car and not a pedestrian. Maybe I'm biased because the visibility on rural roads in my area is very good.
I see cyclists violating road laws constantly and it's really fucking annoying. And it's especially annoying when you can tell it's obviously some urbanist faggot. Like if it was some random mexican or ghetto dweller, well, then whatever, it's rude and shitty, but I really doubt they get political and self entitled about it.
I could imagine the first part about them being poor as the most believable. Though on a lot of their posts the whole reason they claim they boast about wanting it is because they want to do something trivial like play their Nintendo Switch or "eat a burrito".
People consume so much brainrot these days there's thousands of incidents caused by drivers watching youtube/netflix videos now, it's logically far safer to just put them in a train or something if they can't be responsible enough to have their eyes off a screen for 5 minutes.
Oh yeah I agree, I think these guys should ride the bus, while other people drive. It would be best for everyone.
I think someone brought up this point before in this thread as well, but technically you need more focused and engaged while riding a bike which the urbanists conveniently ignore for some reason. One could argue while it's dangerous for a driver to do other things while driving, it would be even more dangerous on a bike.
