Such a rare take these days.
Bauer said the whole system is “struggling.”
“I pay a lot of taxes and I want the transit to be good,” he said. “As a growing city, we really need to be doing better when it comes to our transit, especially with people being called back to work.”
The right wing take of taxation is theft is mediocre but the left has also become really bad at this as well.
Like the recent with Canada Post here. Even in a casual setting where no one is vying for populist votes there’s still no room to scrutinize the current day operations and reassess whether those resources would be better reallocated.
This is why mamdani campaigned free fast buses. Give the people what we want.
And Hafthor Bjornsson can lift 500kg. I guess that means small cranes are shit?
In my city, there is a LRT/Bus I take to visit a friend. It takes me about 5 mins longer to walk there then by transit, 45 mins by transit 50 mins on foot
“People started sending me articles of it taking 55 minutes, 60 minutes to go 10 kilometers,” he said.
We’re not talking Bjornsson levels of athleticism for the comparison to work. Even beginner level runners can manage 10k in an hour. The 18 minutes he beat it by is not a small margin.
That’s also not really the point. Most workplaces limit manual lifting to 50lbs or less. Just because people can lift more doesn’t mean it’s reasonable to expect them to do it. Similarly, the vast majority of people are not going to be willing or able to run 20k a day going to and from work.
So you’re fine with a public transport system that’s the same speed as jogging? Or are you just arguing for the sake of arguing?
Depending on use case, yes I am fine with parts of the system being equal to jogging. If the UP express were the same speed as jogging, yeah, that would be a problem. For a short local surface route, with multiple stops, I’m less concerned. Especially when it’s only been open for a week and there’s already known fixes planned.
Do you at least understand that you’re very much in the minority in thinking that it’s fine?
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Agree, and to add: That the Finch West LRT doesn’t have signal priority is criminal. I live in K-W, and the iON is good because it has signal priority, and it still gets stopped by traffic signals relatively frequently.
The Ion has automatic signal priority in some places, but at other intersections it only uses its priority if it’s behind schedule. I think it could, in theory, run the whole route without stopping at all.
I could do that as well, easily! It might take a while, I’d chop those 500 up to more handleable 20kg or so, and I might need some breaks.
And snacks.
I’d just use a lever.
The running is more impressive though, as he wasn’t run over by a vehicle.
But we can agree on the snacks, right?
I’m thinking of those crispy puff pastry-cheese things, maybe some veggie sticks with hummus, some olives, a cheese board, some fruit, …
Don’t forget the shrimp chips!
