> As of 2016, transportation surpassed the power sector as the largest contributor to the U.S. climate problem.
Straight out wrong. Largest contributor to climate problems such as global heating and Co2 emissions is animal agriculture.
New Research on How Ride-Hailing Impacts Travel Behavior
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#382Earlier quoted context omitted.
> expand routes, increase availability, update their equipment. ... and be faster . The SFMTA in San Francisco , at an average travel speed of 5 miles / hour. Is only slightly faster than brisk walking. Also, from the downtown FiDi out 2 miles in every direction, the Bus has a bus stop at Every block. Yes, every block.
Chicago has a few express buses and is playing with the idea of more. Things like only 1 stop per half mile, a special lane to travel in, raised platforms, and magic that flips traffic signals for them. http://www.transitchicago.com/ashlandbrt/ They are going for a 16 mph average speed, vs 21 mph that the subway gets. Obviously still a bit slow, but way better than a normal bus (which I think is 5-10 mph) I know stre…
It really depends on the route in SF; some DO have express busses.
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#383I cannot drive. I take Uber to and from work every day using a Uber pass. If my alternative were public transit, a bus to a train to another bus or train depending, it would take me 1.5 hours per trip, for a total of 3 hours a day. I would not work in the corporate world if this were the case. Does this study capture these positive externalities? For blind people, these often-derided services are the difference betwe…
Do you regularly get offered the Uber Pass? I've gotten it once, and I used the hell out of it, so now I'm pretty convinced that I'll never be offered again.
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#384uber and lyft are the next mass transit (at least in concept). think of trains and busses as circuit switched networks and cars (in a rideshare context) as packet switched networks. packet switched flexibility wins over the efficiency gains of metal wheels (lower friction) and the economies of scale of busses or trains. my 2c
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#385> As of 2016, transportation surpassed the power sector as the largest contributor to the U.S. climate problem. Straight out wrong. Largest contributor to climate problems such as global heating and Co2 emissions is animal agriculture.
> U.S.
> Global
Maybe you're not comparing the same thing... (And I'm with you on the seriousness of animal agriculture pollution!)
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#386Earlier quoted context omitted.
BART doesn't release the videos to the public. They do release them to the police. There are legitimate reasons not to release them to the public, including the fact that the media will sensationalize them to make BART look far more dangerous than the statistics actually reflect.
Replace [BART] with Police and [police] with [congress]: "The Police doesn't release the videos to the public. They do release them to Congress. There are legitimate reasons not to release them to the public, including the fact that the media will sensationalize them to make the Police look far more dangerous than the statistics actually reflect." Would you still want videos withheld from the public? After all, BART…
Videos of what?
If the police have videos of X person robbing Y person, with no police around, then I don't mind if they keep those videos private.
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#387Earlier quoted context omitted.
The statistics don’t really tell that story. Getting mugged in a station doesn’t typically kill you, and you’re not travelling, so those stats won’t be counted. If there was an “incidents per mile travelled”, metric for my trip during daylight hours that would be one thing. But there isn’t any such statistic. It’s almost certainly cheaper, safer, more time efficient and dramatically more convenient to take a car. In…
> The statistics don’t really tell that story. > In my personal, typical case They may not tell that story in this particular case, but unless something is wrong with the way with the statistics are gathered, it does present a better top-level picture than personal anecdotes. (While personal anecdotes can also be useful in understanding how to design around edge cases, but are not useful when figuring out the best wa…
They still have an important point about what statistics to use. Total death count is useless. You want numbers for per-mile and per-hour, and you want to look at more than just deaths.
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Huh, what's wrong with it taking exactly as much off as you're spending? Here contactless cards take it off exactly and immediately.
There are at least two problems. The first is that the banks are going to charge the agency a transaction fee. The second is that you start having to put in all kinds of anti-fraud mechanisms (think about someone riding around on buses with a negative account balance that never gets checked because the card scanner is only synced when the bus comes in to the depot). Not saying more user-friendly systems can't be roll…
> think about someone riding around on buses with a negative account balance that never gets checked because the card scanner is only synced when the bus comes in to the depot
The system here checks directly.
But yeah I guess transaction fees, we typically don't see them but the merchants do. I know of only two places where it's visible: a mobile kebab store charges 10ct and a local ice cream parlor just doesn't have it because of costs. Other than that every place I know offers it without (mention of) fees.
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#389Earlier quoted context omitted.
I stopped using the BART recently because it's dangerous. Several people I know personally have been held up at gunpoint on the BART, or in the station. That's not counting the various news reports, like one [1]. I'll go back when it's safe, but not before then. [1]: http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/BART-takeover-robbery-50...
Unfortunately many of these crimes will go unsolved because BART refuses to release videos. Apparently, releasing the videos “could lead to stereotypes” https://www.google.com/amp/sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/07...
It would be nice if a community fixed its problems, whether systemic or otherwise, rather than hiding facts in the name of equality. Citizens should demand as much.
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> But I can get Lyft door to door for just $1-2 more than a bus or train. It'll be interesting to see how these prices change when they are no longer subsidized by venture capitalists, contractor drivers, and society at large. And even more interesting once we have decent self-driving technology. That removes the constraint -- the driver -- that makes public transit and mass transit nearly synonymous. The Personal Ra…
> It'll be interesting to see how these prices change when they are no longer subsidized by venture capitalists, contractor drivers, and society at large. You say that without realizing that public transport has been subsidized by the State and "society at large" for a hundred years.
My wild guess without any sources whatsoever is that if you properly calculate all the subsidies and externalities for cars (urban land use, pollution, congestion, fossil fuel industry subsidies possibly including wars in middle east etc), it is quite fair to say that compared to that, public transport is practically unsubsidized.