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jadagul:

alexyar:

@nonternary reblogged your post and added: “jadagul: alexyar: @jadagul replied to your post:I can’t believe…”

#sure there’s the T#but has any of you ever needed to go anywhere the T goes

yes?!!! the T is perfect and I will hear nothing against it

wait nonternary, do you live in Pittsburgh?

I mean, I guess if you have a house in the suburbs then maybe, but T’s destination are in the exact opposite direction of where the actual city is

See, this is it exactly!

“Cities with good public transit” are cities where the trains connect the places the people who are talking want to go. That is, a train line that connects the suburbs where (those) people live to the city where they work.

Like, the Bay Area has a reputation for really good public transit. And this is totally undeserved. It’s spread out and comprises multiple totally distinct systems that don’t even connect up.

Unless you only want to see the airport, the SF city center, and possibly Berkeley. If those are your destinations it’s great. So it has a good reputation.

See also how cities are often judged by how easy it is to take the train from the airport into the business or academic areas. Despite the fact that even if you’re trying to hook up to the airport, on a per-trip basis it’s way more useful to connect the airport to the places where the workers live than to the places where the business travelers live. Or stay.

What? The Bay does not have a good transit reputation. Planners look at and maximize trip share, and here the Bay falls short because of Silicon Valley commuting being a mess. Downtown SF is a jobs center, but it isn’t the only one in the Bay Area.

I am SO ENTHUSIASTIC about Bay Area transit because I CAN LEAVE MY HOUSE

IF I WISH TO GO SEE A FRIEND, I CAN TAKE PUBLIC TRANSIT AND WIND UP NEAR WHERE MY FRIEND IS

as someone who spent the first twenty-three years of my life in Florida and Assend of Hell, Michigan, this is A M A Z I N G

I’m from Europe and the transit in the Bay Area is ~almost adequate~!

It’s like “you tried to code your program and it doesn’t catch fire and panic the kernel on every run, now make it actually do the thing it was supposed to do”. It’s like babby’s first mass transit in Cities Skylines. It’s like “I can’t think of any European city that would be relevant enough that anyone would know where it is and have worse mass transit but that doesn’t mean it’s the worst in the world, it’s just worse than any of the actually not-shitty ones”.

It’s like “I have no fucking clue why your local trains use diesel engines that sound like helicopters and can’t accelerate worth shit, but at least you have trains and that’s good by American standards”. It’s like “your metropolitan area of 8 million has almost as many light rail lines as a town of a quarter million in Europe, that’s not utterly horrible”. It’s like “your trams from the 1890s’ Europe are not horribly disgraced by giving dramatically worse service than they gave in the 1890s”.

(via ozymandias271)

5 days ago · tagged #sometimes i need a euro pride tag · 57 notes · source: alexyar · .permalink

  1. rocketverliden reblogged this from theaudientvoid and added:
    I guess the Light Rail and bus systems in my hometown are okay? Light Rail’s a little cooler, but maybe less immediately...
  2. macavitykitsune reblogged this from perfectly-ultimate-great-shoofle
  3. theaudientvoid reblogged this from socialjusticemunchkin and added:
    BART is cool. Muni is terrible. If there was a way to get from my house to BART that didn’t involve taking a bus line...
  4. radioactivecallista reblogged this from ozymandias271 and added:
    I have mixed opinions about the Dallas area public transit. On one hand, it’s not good. On the other hand, it’s MUCH...
  5. the-grey-tribe reblogged this from maybe-a-lizard and added:
    @drethelin experiences relevant to the uber and cheap mass transit problematic
  6. perfectly-ultimate-great-shoofle reblogged this from alexyar
  7. maybe-a-lizard reblogged this from socialjusticemunchkin and added:
    AHAHAHA YES these last two comments are the perfect illustration of why some people think the Bay Area transit system is...
  8. alexyar reblogged this from socialjusticemunchkin
  9. socialjusticemunchkin reblogged this from ozymandias271 and added:
    I’m from Europe and the transit in the Bay Area is ~almost adequate~!It’s like “you tried to code your program and it...
  10. ozymandias271 reblogged this from speakertoyesterday and added:
    I am SO ENTHUSIASTIC about Bay Area transit because I CAN LEAVE MY HOUSE IF I WISH TO GO SEE A FRIEND, I CAN TAKE PUBLIC...
  11. corpus-vak reblogged this from jadagul and added:
    For all that the London Underground and TfL are garbage, they’re still far and away the best public transit system I’ve...
  12. light-rook-offtopic reblogged this from nonternary and added:
    trans men are the purveyors of the best public transit
  13. nonternary reblogged this from alexyar and added:
    haha I AM DUMB anyway long live the MBTA
  14. hexagonalpeg reblogged this from jadagul and added:
    Seattle is great as long as you’re going downtown or north-south. Going other places often requires going downtown...
  15. not-a-lizard said: BART does not, for example, get you anywhere close to Stanford. (Why do I live here??)
  16. jadagul reblogged this from plain-dealing-villain and added:
    Naw, Seattle has a fantastic public transit network. It’s just that almost none of it is trains. There’s one train from...
  17. not-a-lizard said: I think it has one because a lot of other cities in CA just really suck.
  18. speakertoyesterday reblogged this from jadagul and added:
    What? The Bay does not have a good transit reputation. Planners look at and maximize trip share, and here the Bay falls...