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Re: Show HN: I built a transit travel time map

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Post by ng-henry »

arafalov wrote: post #36

I want very similar to this but for shopping without a car. Like, if I want to buy something big from Walmart or Costco (to keep to generic shop names) and it does not matter if I am on a train/metro/subway for 10 minutes or 20 minutes, but it totally does matter number of transport switches of bus->subway) and walking is really bad. So, it would make sense to go to a very distant shop, but that is right opposite the…

Not sure if something like this exists yet, but certainly do-able within my implementation.

For example, when choosing the best route, it penalizes every transfer by 120 seconds [1]. Therefore, a route that takes 2 minutes longer is equivalent to one transfer.

It'd be cool to have a tool where you can dynamically change these settings, and maybe even have different transfer penalties depending on if you're transferring inside a station vs walking outside.

[1]: https://github.com/econaxis/time2reach/blob/main/src/formatt...

Re: Show HN: I built a transit travel time map

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Post by tsudounym »

ghaff wrote: post #37
rootusrootus wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They were destroyed in the 1950s due to pressure from car/oil lobbies Popular explanation but largely false. They were destroyed because people quit using them.

But it's far more satisfying to blame some change you don't like on $EVILCORP than a more complicated narrative that revolves around people as a whole preferred something different so it didn't really make sense for government/a company to keep pouring money into a pit to keep a small minority happy. The story often goes that someone destroyed a fully operational system for profits when in fact the system was badly d…

Do you REALLY think gasoline subsidies and government backed 97% LTV mortgages is a free market? People were coaxed out of cities with very generous subsidies as well as race baiting (redlining)

Re: Show HN: I built a transit travel time map

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tsudounym wrote: post #44
ghaff wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But it's far more satisfying to blame some change you don't like on $EVILCORP than a more complicated narrative that revolves around people as a whole preferred something different so it didn't really make sense for government/a company to keep pouring money into a pit to keep a small minority happy. The story often goes that someone destroyed a fully operational system for profits when in fact the system was badly d…

Do you REALLY think gasoline subsidies and government backed 97% LTV mortgages is a free market? People were coaxed out of cities with very generous subsidies as well as race baiting (redlining)

People moved out to the suburbs for a lot of reasons--not least of which was the post-war baby boom. The US government certainly didn't discourage it (though they were arguably pursuing policies the majority of the population wanted) and the exodus added fire to a self-reinforcing cycle of urban problems (including race-related ones)which lasted at least through the 1980s. And arguably we could see movement out of at least some cities again.

I'm not especially pro-suburbia--I live in an exurban/almost rural location. But I think it's perfectly understandable why many people wouldn't live in a city given a choice which they increasing had post-WWII in the US.

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