OT: Public transport

Public transport is intended to get people to work, rather than taking them on holiday. The fact that it doesn't do a very good job when you ask it do something it wasn't designed to do isn't a good reason to get rid of it.

Commander Kinsey is an egocentric idiot, so he won't see it that way.

He is a rather worthless incompetent but prolific British internet troll

- best off ignored in your kill file. He posts things just to add noise.

In the May Scientific American there was an article about public transport. They point to Seattle as a place where it works. You just have to set it up right and run it frequently enough.

Bill

A taxi is also Public Transport.

What about rental cycles and eScooters?

A mate and some friends spent a long weekend at a beer festival in Munich and said they were fantastic. Pick some up from where you are, activate them via the app, go where you want and log out and leave them. If you come out of a place (typically a tourist attraction) and the scooters you had were gone, there would generally be some a short distance away.

He said the difference between there and say where they have trialled here in the UK is respect and social responsibility.

They weren't left all over the footpath but out of the way, up against a wall or fence.

They were never found damaged, especially vandalised and any that were left a bit out of the way or too flat to use were collected up and / or the battery replaced for a fully charged one.

I have reported many of the 'Boris / Santander' hire bikes abandoned here (well outside of their typical patch) and they are always recovered pretty promptly (before the local scum destroy them).

When did parents stop teaching the respect for other peoples property to their children, as can generally seen by all the damage and graffiti on all sorts of public transport and property?

Cheers, T i m

For those not aware about Scotland, Braemar is a small rural town. Public transport in large mostly rural and mountainous region like Scotland is either gonna be limited or expensive.

The efficiencies of a NA city don't translate.

Stop cross posting your baby bullshit to s.e.d! We have plenty of our own baby bullshit here that we prefer.

have escooters here too very convenient, they use GPS to make sure you can't park or drive them where it isn't legal and to end your ride you have to take a picture of how you parked it, I think there's also a bonus for parking at the designated parking areas where the recharged ones are dropped off

but the idea is basically ruined, because helmets were made mandatory so unless you walk around with a helmet or want to risk a 200€ fine they are not an option

I rode the bus when I was going to college. There was one but that left

There's an article in today's SF Chronicle about kids in affluent suburbs going crazy with expensive 30+ MPH e-bikes, riding in gangs in parks and in the hallways of school buildings. Their parents get tired of driving them to/from school and e-bikes are cheaper than getting them a car.

Not to mention the fires from cheap Chinese batteries.

People ride the scooters on sidewalks and injure people too. Or ride in streets and kill themselves. Three of my employees have had run-ins between electric scooters and bikes, with cars.

Soon e-bikes and scooters will be colliding with driverless cars.

It used to be illegal for unlicensed people to operate powered unlicensed vehicles on roadways. It used to be illegal to drive a powered vehicle on a sidewalk. Not much is illegal any more.

tirsdag den 2. maj 2023 kl. 18.16.27 UTC+2 skrev John Larkin:

over here in the civilized world, ebikes and escooters are type approved and speed limited and sidewalks are only for walking

Ski areas often have part-time, usually retired, bus drivers, working mostly at peak times. Lots of small busses with part-time drivers would be great, but the unions wouldn't allow it.

A lot of retired people would be happy to get out a few hours a day and be helpful.

San Franciso used to have swarms of "jitneys", small private vans to move people around. The politicians and unions made them illegal.

The War On Poverty deliberately created an underclass of fatherless kids.

On May 2, 2023 at 9:49:52 AM MST, "John Larkin" wrote snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Huh? Cite?

What can we conclude from that?

Choose one: Public transportation will never work because you have to wait 90 minutes for a bus or If more people took the bus they would run them more frequently so the wait is minimal. Very convenient and cost effective.

On May 2, 2023 at 10:40:06 AM MST, "Ed P" wrote <WVb4M.556642$ snipped-for-privacy@fx47.iad:

Right. And to get it going it may need to run at a loss... though that "loss" really is still a gain for society and the environment.

When I worked in Boston I would drive down from NH Sunday night and park the car until my escape on Friday. Apparently Boston hasn't made that observation yet. I rented apartments in various locations including Allston, Somerville, and Beacon Hill. Walking was faster than messing around with the MBTA. I wasn't a barhopper but if you were you had to remember that while the bars closed at 2, the trains went to bed at 1.

When I worked on Wall Street NYC during the 1980's I would walk by the same cars on the street with tickets on them. Every day. Same cars. It finally occurred to me that paying the parking tickets cost less than renting garage space. Go figure.

I keep promising myself to take a joy ride on one someday.

Oh, yeah. If you read carefully one thing the Mountain Line is very, very good at is getting grants. Our two senators might fight tooth and nail on most issues but they're very good at bringing home the bacon.