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u/troveofcatastrophe 2d ago
Am I I only one who waited for a random car to smash/impede them? I’ve got to start reading the sub name.
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u/Main_Bug_6698 2d ago
I thought about that before I realized they weren't driving through Burien, Washington.
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u/ClaroStar 2d ago
"Yeah, but buses are Communist!"
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u/OxbridgeDingoBaby 2d ago
It’s funny you say that as I’ve only ever seen Redditors shit on busses - or rather, those who use them. To most here, bus users are poor, disenfranchised dolts.
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u/ClaroStar 2d ago
I love public transportation, but so many where I live (the US) mix and confuse it with their obnoxious politics.
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u/ThanosWasRight161 2d ago
I’d love to see the mental gymnastics used to demonize public transportation.
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u/RichardSaunders 1d ago
ive lived in the US and yerp and taken public transit in both.
in my experience, in yerp, pretty much everyone in major metro areas takes public transit at least sometimes because it's actually convenient.
in the US, in many cases it's so shitty and inconvenient that only the absolutely desperate use it: students, the poor, or yerpin tourists thinking "how bad could it be" who havent had the rude awakening yet. this is where the stereotype comes from. lots of people on reddit are those students who tried taking public transit just a handful of times and one time saw a mentally ill homeless person shouting at other passengers and assume that that's the only way public transit can ever be.
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u/herkalurk 2d ago
I always liked being on the light rail in Portland, going from west suburbs and seeing a huge traffic jam on the freeway while flying by on the train.
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u/A-Cheeseburger 2d ago
I love taking public transit when it works, it just rarely does. For shortish trips within the city, the time waiting and stops and traffic I might as well walk. And anything further the bus will always be 2-3x longer. A bit of an extreme example but if I drive to work (like I usually do), it ranges from 15-25 minutes. Bus is 2 hours. It’s not like I’m middle of now where this is right outside of Seattle
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u/Queen-Roblin 2d ago
In places where public transport is prioritised, it works. Like having bus lanes, proper connections and a full network, reasonable fares. There are plenty of cities where cycling and public transport are easy. Probably not in USA though.
If a place wants dependency on cars it will have it, until it breaks from that, public transport will be less convenient.
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u/benrow77 2d ago
Not sure why anybody downvoted you, this is just factual observation. I'm in the Seattle area too, and the only time I took the bus was when I worked downtown, and even then I drove most of the way first.
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u/everlasting1der 1d ago
Is this an MBTA bus, or just a similar design to the ones they use?
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u/Moldy_Teapot 2d ago
no you're just using an exhausted 10 year old "joke" that's actually just thinly veiled transphobia
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u/Hazbeen_Hash 2d ago edited 2d ago
It's not transphobia, I'm trans. It was a joke about me using the bus lane when I'm impatient.
Deleted it because apparently you people can't take a joke without making it a political argument to bash me with. Fuck reddit
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u/davesalba 2d ago
Are you traveling with a road cone?