Will Tuladhar-DouglasOn the coach to Glasgow. Because #Scotrail doesn't have any morning train that gets me to the office before 10:30 (!!).
Can't work, but at least I get to listen to interesting podcasts.
When the coach reached Glasgow, there was morning rush hour traffic on the M80. I have not been in a traffic jam for years.
I stared out from the coach window at all the individuals in their individual cars, contending with each other, struggling for forward movement. How is it possible that all those people who _could_ work together to solve such a simple problem, to create a collective, joyous, efficient way to travel... how have they been persuaded instead to see each other as obstacles and competitors? Is it really worth losing your humanity to have an expensive, dirty, metal suit? Who did this to us?
Pauline von Hellermann
Mike Taylor 🦕@yetiinabox Public transport is a great solution to the, as you say, simple problem of getting lots of people at A, who want to get to B, from A to B. But the much harder problem is that most people live somewhere between B and M and want to get to somewhere between N and Y.
Yes, public transport certainly should be better, more reliable, and subsidised. But let's not pretend it's the whole solution for all or even most people.
Simon Brooke@mike @yetiinabox The whole solution is for the overwhelming majority of people not to travel significant distances to work every day. Either work where you live, or, if you cannot, live where you work.
Every one of those journeys is avoidable waste the planet cannot afford.
@simon_brooke @yetiinabox That part, I very much agree with. Commuting should be pretty much a fringe activity by now.
tvaughan@mike @yetiinabox When I lived in the Netherlands, I stepped out of my house, walked two blocks, and from there took a variety of mass transit until a train stopped at a ski resort in Austria a shorter distance to the ticket booth than the two blocks I had to walk at the start of my journey.
@tvaughan @yetiinabox Good for the Netherlands.
Paul D. Lagasse@yetiinabox A testament to the drastic lengths we are willing go to avoid having to interact with other people.