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Imagine looking at this photo and wondering aloud about the parking. Not very realistic
It's called a Christmas market and we have one in Chicago.
Usually it’s transit + walking + park-and-ride, not ‘giant garage under the market.’ When the space is for people, you don’t need to store cars there.
Ironically this specific market has a giant garage under the market
Which one is it?
Dresden.
Striezelmarkt in Dresden.
The American mind cannot comprehend this
The American mind cannot comprehend this
I'll freely admit that I cannot comprehend the temporal ordering of twitter comments.
Never really figured out Tumblr indentation either
I don't get it, it's just a big blur. What's this post say?
Could it be that your mind cannot comprehend this?
The worst part is when my fellow Americans are very "we tried nothing and we're out of ideas" about it. Or worse, actively fighting any changes.
Americans can understand if you phrase it differently.
"You know how sometimes, you go to a big event, and the parking is so far away from the event that they have to ferry people from the parking lots to the event using a bus? Well, this is just like that, except you park at home."
I refuse to take any kind of public transport. That's why I carry my own elevator with me in case I need to enter a skyscraper.
This is like baby proofing the world for Americans.
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it seems the british mind also cannot, cos imgur's blocked here 🥀
Holy shit... im in uk visiting. Had no idea this is what the internet is like now.
Weird I'm in the UK and have the image.... ah, forget that, while I'm not on vpn now I was earlier and it must have cached
What's funny is in my experience in the USA it's not that there are not busses but they take SOO much longer. I had a job that was 2.8 miles away. It took 7 or 8 minutes to drive there(depending on if you hit the one traffic light on red). Theres a bus stop outside the company. There's a bus stop on the corner of my complex. I looked up on the bus provider website how long it would take...9 hours each way.
Years ago I was living in a different state, a friend was throwing a new years party in his college house and invited me. His college was 3 hours away. I thought about just taking a bus since obviously we would be drinking. I checked the bus schedule... It would take 2.5 days with 4 change overs each way.
I ended up just crashing on his couch and drove home after I recovered from the hang over.
Its just not feasible to take buses here due to how long they take.
Yep. It's pretty depressing.
A few years ago, I was in Texas with family and we wanted to visit NASA. My husband was adamant in taking the bus because my family are notoriously slow to get ready; fair enough. The bus ride took him 3hrs, which included a 20min walk from the nearest bus stop to NASA. It took us 40min to drive.
Public transport is pretty hostile in the US.
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That sounds like bus routes are either very meandery or they aren't frequent.
Yeah I think it's politics... "look we have busses and no one uses them we are just wasting money on them".
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He probably misread the schedules because I refuse to believe 2.8 miles takes 9 hours. That is some serious "meandering".
9 hours!
Frequency doesn't matter if the route is somewhat direct, unless you say a 9 hour trip includes 8.5 hours of waiting on the bus?
I suspect its, A->B 10 mins, wait at B for 9 hours, B->C 10 mins.
There's a bus stop just a few blocks from my house, but the bus only comes by once every two hours between 9am-5pm. There's also a very stupid hub design to the routes, so if you live in City B, you need to take a bus 15 miles to the hub in City A, so you can transfer to the bus for City C, even though B and C are less than 5 miles apart.
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9 hours? Jeez.
Though, for 2.8 miles I wouldn't even consider a bus. I'll grab my bicycle and be there in 12 minutes.
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There is actually a parking garage below. But you are really incentivised not to come by car, but by public transport. The tram tracks are just out of shot.
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In America, you have thousands in tiny cars. Weak and undisciplined, unable hold more than four people.
In Germany, one big car on a long steel road carries thousands of people.
It still blows my mind when I look at Dutch intersections in Google's street view. They managed to fit cars, bike lanes, and even commuter trains into their intersections without any issue.
In the US, you can only choose 2 of those things. Add a third, someone is going to die.
I have a buddy that went to Amsterdam. He’s a bigger dude and the FIRST thing he told me about his trip was “you have to fucking bike everywhere”. Sounded wonderful to me but his tone of voice suggested otherwise.
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