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Some people don't have any idea how transit works (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago by wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net to c/urbanism@hexbear.net

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[-] Ciel@lemmygrad.ml 38 points 9 months ago

mass transit is massivley missunderstood, especially in america. but these two anecdotes are a special kind of dumb

[-] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 46 points 9 months ago

I kind of see where the people are coming from. The first one understands that trains are good but doesn't understand how high speed rail works nor how rapid transit works. The second person might have mixed up MARTA with the Atlanta Streetcar, which is cute but is very much at the whims of traffic, owing to how poorly new streetcar "systems" (read: one streetcar line in mixed traffic as a handout to real estate developers to gentrify downtowns) are built in America.

[-] NPa@hexbear.net 37 points 9 months ago

They should make all street cars into supersonic bullet trains. Didn't get out of the way fast enough? Too bad, you are now a diffuse cloud of matter.

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 12 points 9 months ago

I can get behind this. This is actually Brightline east's policy with their not grade-separated crossings. I think they've flexed on over 100 cars and counting so far.