0:38 This is so true 😂 I mean… I LOVE trains and buses, but we really should be able to just walk (depending on our mobility) to most of our amenities.
In my city the routes can only be found on my cities website, a lot of people using the bus have limited data or no phone at all and others like me won't bother to check a website if it isn't clearly posted. Any city that actually cares about its bus routes should get them added to Google maps for the convenience and helping drivers find other options. This is also the first time I've heard somebody bring up alleyways as pedestrian paths, in many suburban style neighborhoods in my city they provide an easy direct way out of the neighborhood for people walking, if they actually followed the windy confusing paved roads it would make their trip like 4x longer.
It never ceases to amaze me. These videos on public transit always - always - assume that citizens are nothing but expendable resources necessary for the proper function of an idealized urban system. Dear Mr Urban Planner. I don't want to live in your expensive, noisy, crowded, crime-ridden, over-taxed urban core. Go examine San Francisco and Portland if you want to see why. And if you want to improve bus transit, then begin at the beginning. Get the vagrants off the bus. Frequency and accessibility don't matter unless the necessary condition of safety is met first. I rode the bus to work for 15 years. I stopped the day I got on the bus and it was filled (by which I mean "every seat was taken") by homeless people seeking to avoid the cold. They weren't going anywhere. They were just riding. All of them were armed. All of them were struggling with some form of addiction or mental health problem. All of them were in some sort of hygienic distress. So I went back to driving. You see, people reserve the right to make decisions for themselves. They don't have to equate your ideas of "urban planning" with the public good to their own private detriment. We aren't chits to be deployed in your game of social engineering.
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This is such a great detailing of how to make a great bus stop - with specific recommendations. Thank you!
You're welcome! I'm glad you liked it!
0:38 This is so true 😂 I mean… I LOVE trains and buses, but we really should be able to just walk (depending on our mobility) to most of our amenities.
Yes absolutely!
In my city the routes can only be found on my cities website, a lot of people using the bus have limited data or no phone at all and others like me won't bother to check a website if it isn't clearly posted. Any city that actually cares about its bus routes should get them added to Google maps for the convenience and helping drivers find other options. This is also the first time I've heard somebody bring up alleyways as pedestrian paths, in many suburban style neighborhoods in my city they provide an easy direct way out of the neighborhood for people walking, if they actually followed the windy confusing paved roads it would make their trip like 4x longer.
Thanks for sharing! And yes, back alleys can become great shortcuts for pedestrians and bikes, especially to parks and main roads!
Do you guys have any videos pertaining to hostile and friendly comfortable transit shelters
I'm researching on a potential video on that topic. Got the idea but not yet been able to complete the script!
It never ceases to amaze me. These videos on public transit always - always - assume that citizens are nothing but expendable resources necessary for the proper function of an idealized urban system. Dear Mr Urban Planner. I don't want to live in your expensive, noisy, crowded, crime-ridden, over-taxed urban core. Go examine San Francisco and Portland if you want to see why.
And if you want to improve bus transit, then begin at the beginning. Get the vagrants off the bus. Frequency and accessibility don't matter unless the necessary condition of safety is met first. I rode the bus to work for 15 years. I stopped the day I got on the bus and it was filled (by which I mean "every seat was taken") by homeless people seeking to avoid the cold. They weren't going anywhere. They were just riding. All of them were armed. All of them were struggling with some form of addiction or mental health problem. All of them were in some sort of hygienic distress. So I went back to driving.
You see, people reserve the right to make decisions for themselves. They don't have to equate your ideas of "urban planning" with the public good to their own private detriment. We aren't chits to be deployed in your game of social engineering.