A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.'
—Enrique Penalosa
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I suspect he owns that train ... company ... (with Pete Waterman) ... 👍
@kim_harding the Queen used to take the train to Kings Lynn for Sandringham. They cleared the first class area for her. Two models of train ran on that line and she had strong views on which she was better and hence was always rostered
@kim_harding ... and on a corollary, this implies that #Hamburg is actually one of the most developed cities, as it one of the few places where you can find 1st and 2nd class coaches on the metro ("S-Bahn").
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I liked public transport, until it was filled with COVID
@kim_harding Well, obviously his baby is driving his car!
@MartinKazinsky @kim_harding and he's more than 64 now.
@msur @kim_harding NOW he‘s sitting in the train AND THEN he‘ll be walking on PENNY LANE
@kim_harding I'm a big fan of public transportation but if I used it, it would make a 20 minute commute turn into an hour and a half. Public transportation in the US outside of a major metropolitan area sucks.
@kim_harding meanwhile, in America, the bus stop was so dark this morning that I think the driver actually missed me, and the bus stop by my work is near inaccessible because of the lack of sidewalks
@kim_harding I read Hawaii was like that, before USA made it a colony of cheap labour.
@kim_harding in a really developed country people can travel on public transport without strangers taking their photograph.
@kim_harding Kong Olav - king of Norway in the 70's - paying for his subway fare on way to skiing weekend. The ultimate example. This was during the oil crisis in 1973.

@kim_harding This is exactly the reason why USA will not become a developed country in foreseeable future.

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@kim_harding I can't understand why this quote is attached to a pic of a BRITISH #train & still doing the rounds on social media. The #UK has got the WORST record in terms of #publictransport investment, let's not even talk about #HS2, about how much it costs to go from London to Cornwall, or how impossible it is to do 200km between 2 points away from the capital. It's woeful, if not criminal. Please stop using #Macca to pretend #Tories did anything other than DESTROY public transport.
@kim_harding Saw this on an FB post, and naturally, lots of negative comments followed, most of which I assume came from North Americans.
@kim_harding Looks like the Heathrow Express.