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Life is so much more enjoyable when you move away from the suburbs and get rid of your car. The freedom to just walk to your destination and having everything within walking range is priceless.
How to tell the world you don't have children, in two sentences.
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How to tell the world you don't have children, in two sentences.
Automobile accidents are the leading cause of child death.
It's also true that people very, very commonly move to the suburbs once they have children, and it's not because those people are all morons.
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It’s quite amazing there wasn’t a proper rail line connecting Tel Aviv and Jerusalem until very recently. Certainly the very mountainous terrain around Jerusalem makes it difficult but the Swiss have managed.
All the traffic between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv was via highway one, for quite some time. I was once told, that the rail network was neglected, out of fear that it would be vulnerable to terrorist attacks.
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Plenty of things you do are “like an animal”. I cycle in Amsterdam all the time, and while rain is unpleasant it is really not the end of the world.
Walking barefoot and living in a cave is also not the end of the world, but most of us would not prefer that kind of life. Not everybody is like you and not everywhere is like Amsterdam.
Of course they still own two cars and drive to work despite it being "only" a 15 minute bike ride. They are both MDs.
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Automobile accidents are the leading cause of child death.
That's true. It's also true that people very, very commonly move to the suburbs once they have children, and it's not because those people are all morons.
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Blind, wheelchair-bound, and elderly people use trains daily everywhere in Tokyo. It only sucks if your city doesn’t value the non-able-bodied (which unfortunately is most of the world).
I remember being surprised at the abundance of tactile paving in Japan. https://www.simplemost.com/sidewalk-bumps/
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This comment is clearly silly, since in the Netherlands - a rather rainy country - approximately 25% of people commute to work by bicycle. You can wear a coat and rain trousers if you feel like it.
I know they do, doesn't mean I want to, and have cycled during Swiss and Scandinavian winters during a couple of years about 20 years ago.
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Walking barefoot and living in a cave is also not the end of the world, but most of us would not prefer that kind of life. Not everybody is like you and not everywhere is like Amsterdam.
I have an aunt/uncle in Germany and when I visited them I'd occasionally take one of their bikes out and bike to my grandparents dacha about two miles away. It's cute and super euro but as soon as it's a little cold or rainy I'm over it. Of course they still own two cars and drive to work despite it being "only" a 15 minute bike ride. They are both MDs.
Yeah, I always marvel at Americans who think that Europeans walk, cycle, or take public transit everywhere. Some do, especially students and retirees. However, for working people, car is still king.
At least in Israel, many of the old lines, even if they still operated today, would have been long obsolete. A daily train leaving Haifa at 8:30 and reaching Jaffa by lunch? Three, four hours? The same line today makes the journey in an hour, and there are plans on the table to build additional tracks to cut that down to a half hour. People commute from Haifa to Tel Aviv, with three (soon four) tracks passing through…
True, but I think it's easier economically and politically to get from "aging 19th century network" to "modern network" because you can upgrade it piecemeal tackling the worst bits first, compared to starting from "basically no network".
This article made me think about how the presence of trains indicate peace. Trains are so vulnerable to attack. Their existence depends on everyone with access to the tracks to trust and agree with their purpose. I suspect if we're mourning these trains, we also mourn the loss of peace and stability in the region. As an aside, TIL that there are actually two Tripolis, one in Libya and the other in Lebanon. I have hea…
> This article made me think about how the presence of trains indicate peace. Trains are so vulnerable to attack. Their existence depends on everyone with access to the tracks to trust and agree with their purpose. I suspect if we're mourning these trains, we also mourn the loss of peace and stability in the region. Trains can also indicate war :) They are crucial for logistics, and were especially so before WW2. My…