Not like a lot, but I've seen what a lot of westerners complain about and I think its important that each of you have one mildly annoying experience with a fellow human being a day to build up your tolerance.

Also all the other stuff that's good about public transport I guess.

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[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not anti-mass transit. It's better and more cooperative than driving. The friction is downgraded from road rage and is generally healthy. I want to rip out roads and build railways on top of their corpses, and I would take those railways over biking some days. What I'm arguing for is mixed-modal public transit that makes that healthier and more socially positive in more ways. The role of bike infrastructure isn't to replace the bus or the train. Here the waterways are public land with a greenstrip surrounding both sides. The bike trails are mostly built along the edge of the riparian zone with the banks reinforced by it and kept as protected wildlife corridors. The bike infrastructure exists so that someone who otherwise has no access to nature can interact with it in an area that's now safe from catastrophic flooding. It induces demand for public control of spaces that would otherwise be sold off to developers, then funds parks departments that are usually the lowest budget priority for cities.

That's why I say it's just an additional socioecological angle that changes the psychogeography of the city more toward what mass transit tries to achieve.