Where I live, that is a reality. It's a dream given form. No driving, no hyper-attentive babysitting imbeciles to avoid a crash. I board a train, then I simply set off.
Car heads will never understand the bliss of just getting out of the vehicle and leaving without having to find parking
I never had a car until I needed one for work. At the first two places I was assigned there was a reserved parking lot with plenty of room for everyone. At the last place I was assigned, there was no guaranteed parking. It was easier to take public transit for 75 minutes than to drive 30 minutes and have to look for parking.
Where is this utopia?
Here in Sweden this exists, during rushhour there is a bus every 5-10 min to connect me from my suburb to the Stockhom underground (which also departs every 5 min) so I can get to work.
During weekends the service is reduced to a bus every 10-20 (somtimes 30) min to get to the local railroad station with similar departure frequency.
If you need to drive (to get out into the country side), there are few traffic jams, or you can take a bike.
NYC is one of the few places in the USA where you can mostly just get on a train or bus and go. It's pretty great. There's room for improvement - some lines are better than others, and off peak you can wait half an hour if you just miss it. But mostly it just works
Berlin, any EU micronation, Amsterdam
Tbh, most capital cities in EU either have it or are close to it, just it gets shit when in the boonies
Rich ppl want cutting edge innovation because they can buy everything that already exists while most people want a functioning society with good infrastructure and services.
Cutting edge ? Rich people ? Since when ?
I wanna just be able to teleport directly to where I wanna go. I really wonder what the world would look like if we actually developed such technology.
But I'll take this in the meantime.
I could not agree more about The Best Public Transportation (BICYCLE PATHWAYS, IN PLACE OF AUTOMOBILE LANES), but want SAFE self driving, completely solar powered (through solar panels built into the skins), flying vehicles.
...comes so regularly I don't need to check a schedule
That would be the dream for the bus system where I live if I had the time intervals completely memorized and if they didn't have delays that leads to me having to wait a full hour for the next bus instead of the roughly 30 minutes it's supposed to take.
so regularly I don’t need to check a schedule
30 minutes
Once it gets to every 5 minutes no one checks the schedule.
Large cities that aren't run by idiot right wingers tend to invest in public transport and have the numbers to make this kind of frequency economic.
but my country is too big for trains
/s
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Come to central Europe
If you mean Germany, then that's really not true - car centric as fuck
Ever been to Berlin? No need for a car, tram is faster anyways and you just go there, the next train usually arrives within 5 minutes.
More I been thinking about this-
Huge majority of things presented to the people, are sold to the people, by owners that are reckless & Capitalist mindset of endless need for more, SICKNESS-
Looks Cool
&
Latest Thing, so must be good & must have.
AI perfect example of this,
But but, wellwell well how do you expect the oil companies to make a Fair Profit??? And the military! Without oil wars, we might have to use that money someplace else!
And someone think of America's techbros. They're just biologically Better Than You. They deserve to get filthy rich while we commute for hours in traffic.
Read my username, it's got SNARK in it.
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