• SnarkoPolo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    16 minutes ago

    But but, wellwell well how do you expect the oil companies to make a Fair Profit??? And the military! Without oil wars, we might have to use that money someplace else!

    And someone think of America’s techbros. They’re just biologically Better Than You. They deserve to get filthy rich while we commute for hours in traffic.

  • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    7 hours ago

    Where I live, that is a reality. It’s a dream given form. No driving, no hyper-attentive babysitting imbeciles to avoid a crash. I board a train, then I simply set off.

    • ieatpwns@lemmy.worldEnglish
      29·
      7 hours ago

      Car heads will never understand the bliss of just getting out of the vehicle and leaving without having to find parking

      • DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish
        10·
        7 hours ago

        I never had a car until I needed one for work. At the first two places I was assigned there was a reserved parking lot with plenty of room for everyone. At the last place I was assigned, there was no guaranteed parking. It was easier to take public transit for 75 minutes than to drive 30 minutes and have to look for parking.

      • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkEnglish
        9·
        6 hours ago

        NYC is one of the few places in the USA where you can mostly just get on a train or bus and go. It’s pretty great. There’s room for improvement - some lines are better than others, and off peak you can wait half an hour if you just miss it. But mostly it just works

      • gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        7·
        5 hours ago

        Berlin, any EU micronation, Amsterdam

        Tbh, most capital cities in EU either have it or are close to it, just it gets shit when in the boonies

      • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
        12·
        6 hours ago

        Here in Sweden this exists, during rushhour there is a bus every 5-10 min to connect me from my suburb to the Stockhom underground (which also departs every 5 min) so I can get to work.

        During weekends the service is reduced to a bus every 10-20 (somtimes 30) min to get to the local railroad station with similar departure frequency.

        If you need to drive (to get out into the country side), there are few traffic jams, or you can take a bike.

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zipEnglish
    13·
    7 hours ago

    …comes so regularly I don’t need to check a schedule

    That would be the dream for the bus system where I live if I had the time intervals completely memorized and if they didn’t have delays that leads to me having to wait a full hour for the next bus instead of the roughly 30 minutes it’s supposed to take.

    • Log in | Sign up@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 hour ago

      so regularly I don’t need to check a schedule

      30 minutes

      Once it gets to every 5 minutes no one checks the schedule.

      Large cities that aren’t run by idiot right wingers tend to invest in public transport and have the numbers to make this kind of frequency economic.