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An underground delivery train comes to the Atlanta suburbs

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Post by chfalck »

averageRoyalty wrote: post #178
chfalck wrote: post #159

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Yes. It’s especially interesting to hear people say this when some states in the US are larger than some countries in Western Europe. For example Texas is slightly larger than France, and Montana is slightly larger than Germany. Of course, crossing state boundaries in the US does not introduce you to as much diversity as crossing many country boundaries in Western Europe. However, when you consider there are 50 state…

I hear this argument a lot, Americans insinuating their different states are effectively almost different countries. It is nonsense. Americans are Americans. Of course you have regional differences, no different to people from York and Bristol would. But you're not as diverse as you think. Outwardly I'm sure Brits, Australians, Chinese, Indians etc all get lumped together in your head, despite each of those countries…

> Outwardly I'm sure Brits, Australians, Chinese, Indians etc all get lumped together in your head.

No, they do not.

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Post by sfifs »

averageRoyalty wrote: post #177
keyboard_slap wrote: post #165

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Because most public transit simply isn't profitable

Why would it need to be profitable? It's _public_ transport, paid for by public funds.

Exactly this. It's generally a service with positive externalities. Also this specific use case (lunchtime bus loops) exists in many parts of the world and they are clearly value creating overall otherwise shopping centres and districts wouldn't be running them.

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Post by mkii »

Rebelgecko wrote: post #190
mkii wrote: post #186

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What does gender have to do with anything in this discussion? > in DC area it's something like 2:1 That's not true.

33% of bike trips in the Washington area are by women. Assuming non-binary people are around 1% of trips, that puts men at 66%, giving an exact 2:1 ratio Source: https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/24356/dot_24356_DS1.pdf ? And IMO you can't call a mode of transportation "fine" when large swathes of the population don't feel safe or comfortable using it (this comes up a lot when I talk to female friends about bus/metr…

Thank you for clarifying, I get what you mean now.

That study is over a decade old though. And I would think that there's too many confounding variables at play there. IMO the biggest confounder is "society issues" that make women feel less safe in general in public spaces. In my local neck of the US, I pretty much never see solo women eating outside at night, vs solo men and mixed groups.

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Post by earthling8118 »

cameronh90 wrote: post #164
cpursley wrote: post #110

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Heck, try to get them to use their legs. We had neighbors two houses over that would always DRIVE to visit us - from their house. They thought our car was broken down whenever I walked half a mile to the grocery. America is weird.

To be fair, when I visited the USA, a cop threatened to fine me for jaywalking until he realised I was British. He then gave me a lift to my destination, because apparently the hood I was in was so dangerous that there was a real chance that I might end up getting shot. That was the last time I ever tried walking in LA.

I'm not going to say he was wrong, but in my experience people here actively overestimate the chances of being shot.

One time I went to a fairly nice place that had some bars and shopping places. It was a pretty neat area, the people all seemed good, and it was very accessible to walk in. I told my family members and they looked at me with absolutely perplexed looks that I'd go in that area and were surprised I wasn't shot. Most people just repeat what they have heard.

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Post by cafard »

Rebelgecko wrote: post #137
thorncorona wrote: post #117

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Seems to work fine for singapore / dc.

I think it's hard to say things are fine when there's still huge gender disparities, in DC area it's something like 2:1

This might have been true during WW II when flat feet and myopia did not exempt men from conscription. It has not, that I know of, been true any time in the last seventy years. I moved to the area forty-five years ago. This was not because I supposed that the 5:1 ratio (which some mentioned) would make women overlook my mediocre looks, shabby clothes, and so-so hygiene; but the chance it could be true seemed like a bonus.

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Post by red-iron-pine »

NegativeLatency wrote: post #127
cpursley wrote: post #109

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Have you spent any time in Atlanta in August? Biking outside is not just biking, but also swimming - through the humidity. I don't mind it (avid all-season mountain biker) but most office workers wouldn't opt for that in their fancy office clothing just for a sandwich.

Seems solvable with an e-bike or other micro-mobility options. "You're not made of sugar, you won't melt."

that's not how sun and humidity work. you're going to melt just by virtue of not being in the shade, let alone AC.
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