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destructdisc@lemmy.worldOPto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Electric cars are to save the auto industry, not the environment.English1·2 days agoI’ve just told you I live in Asia and you’ve sent a link about public transport in America.
Very good USdefaultism, sir.
destructdisc@lemmy.worldOPto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•They Tore Down a Highway and Made it a River (and traffic got better) - Not Just BikesEnglish19·2 days agoUtrecht in the Netherlands had a moat that they turned into a motorway, and then back into a canal a few years ago
destructdisc@lemmy.worldOPto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•This led to a very confusing discussion in the replies about the varying fares and systems of public transit in the Oakland-San Francisco areaEnglish2·2 days agoI’m from here and I ride the trains up and down the length of the country fairly often, usually in sleeper class. Every class from Sleeper (SL) and up has linens – sometimes they’re hard to find or just not supplied, but they’re there.
Overcrowding is an issue regardless of whether you have or haven’t gotten a confirmed berth, because folks with unreserved tickets will also come crowding in (because they have to get where they’re going and there simply aren’t enough trains to satisfy demand) and you end up having to share your space with them even if you have a reserved seat. It’s exponentially worse in the sleeper/general (sitting) cars but it happens everywhere on the train. I’ve shared my space with them and I’ve been them. It’s not a pretty sight or a good experience for anyone involved.
destructdisc@lemmy.worldOPto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•This led to a very confusing discussion in the replies about the varying fares and systems of public transit in the Oakland-San Francisco areaEnglish4·2 days agoI didn’t say luxurious, I said lacking in basic amenities. You’re absolutely right that trains should be for everyone, not just for the rich – but everyone also deserves to travel with a certain basic level of sanitation and comfort that isn’t there on a lot of Indian trains. Just because they’re cheap doesn’t mean they should be shit.
The toilets are filthy and unhygienic, the running water often…isn’t, the bed linen has been found to be dirty and/or infested with vermin on quite a few occasions, and the general state of most trains is just bad. Over and above that, the trains themselves haven’t been upgraded in years AND an increasing number of them just…aren’t in service any more, which means delays, horrible overcrowding, conflict on board the train, and an overall unpleasant passenger experience that further drives people away from taking trains.
This is made a lot worse by the fact that the railway authorities here tend to focus on trying to improve the experience for actual rich people in the upper classes (ie. 1st class/AC class) who aren’t even taking the train anyway – they’re flying. That means ticket prices for even the lower classes are rising, because all that money has to come from somewhere, but there’s no commensurate increase in the standard of service.
destructdisc@lemmy.worldOPto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•This led to a very confusing discussion in the replies about the varying fares and systems of public transit in the Oakland-San Francisco areaEnglish3·2 days agoIndia trains are the best trains in the world.
Ehhhh…no, not really. There’s a lot of room for improvement there, honestly. They’re absolutely pretty inexpensive, but even then they’re sorely lacking in basic amenities, and successive governments (especially the current one) have steadily been ignoring the railways more and more in favor of roads and airlines – because rich people tend to either drive or fly, and mostly only poor people take trains. I guess the powers that be think that means the railways aren’t worth caring about.
It’s causing a runaway effect where more and more people are being forced to use roads because the trains are either in terrible nick or overcrowded or both, which means there’s even less focus on actually improving the trains, and so on and so forth.
destructdisc@lemmy.worldOPto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•This led to a very confusing discussion in the replies about the varying fares and systems of public transit in the Oakland-San Francisco areaEnglish5·2 days agoLol sure, if you can call flying middle-seat economy on Indigo once every few months “rich people” behavior
destructdisc@lemmy.worldOPto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•This led to a very confusing discussion in the replies about the varying fares and systems of public transit in the Oakland-San Francisco areaEnglish2·2 days agoYep, I use it every time I need to get to the airport
destructdisc@lemmy.worldOPto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Reminder that the smaller a town or village is, the MORE pedestrian/bike/transit friendly it should be -- not lessEnglish2·3 days ago…and then he went to a village of 265 people, which still has a bus stop with a bicycle rack and buses that come every 12 minutes.
destructdisc@lemmy.worldOPto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•This led to a very confusing discussion in the replies about the varying fares and systems of public transit in the Oakland-San Francisco areaEnglish25·3 days agoI’m in Mumbai. The 37km north-south journey from one end of the city to the other costs 20¢ on the local train. $1.20 if you want to ride the fancy train with AC. East-west is 13km and costs 50¢ on the elevated metro line.
destructdisc@lemmy.worldOPto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Cops prioritizing flow of traffic over actual human lives.English61·3 days agoJust about every state and province in North America could claim that title once you’re outside the bigger cities
destructdisc@lemmy.worldOPto Lemmy Be Wholesome@lemmy.world•PSA: On my way to get groceries today, I saw this big beefy guy (slowly) riding a big beefy motorcyle...with his extremely floofy cat perched on the handlebars.3·3 days agoI’d honestly love to take my cats along on a motorbike ride, but that would mean subjecting them to the hellscape that is Mumbai’s traffic, so…I’m not about to do that. Props to the guy who did, but nah
destructdisc@lemmy.worldOPto Technology@lemmy.world•I just came across an AI called Sesame that appears to have been explicitly trained to deny and lie about the Palestinian genocideEnglish82·3 days ago…and also isn’t stealing shit and wrecking the environment.
destructdisc@lemmy.worldOPto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Electric cars are to save the auto industry, not the environment.English2·4 days agoYou’re not wrong, but Sabine Hossenfelder is not a good source for well, anything (except physics, which she has excellent grounding in).
destructdisc@lemmy.worldOPto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Reminder that the smaller a town or village is, the MORE pedestrian/bike/transit friendly it should be -- not lessEnglish9·5 days agoNo I get that, but there’s this prevailing sentiment that cars are somehow more necessary in rural areas because…they’re not worth serving with transit or something? I don’t know. I think it’s ridiculous. Big cities should obviously have excellent transit and non-car infrastructure but so should small towns and villages
Unfortunately. At least ours is cheap