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#publictransport

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Strypey

It's embarrassing to live in a country where people can honestly say 'if I was rich I'd take the train'.

In the 1980s we had a passenger rail system that could get your from one end of the country to the other, on an ordinary worker's wage. But after more than 4 decades of corporatisation and underinvestment, intercity trains are marketed as a scenic tourist attraction, and only the well-heeled can afford a ticket to ride them.

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#PublicTransport#MassTransit#trains
el Celio 🇪🇺 🇺🇦

🇭🇷🚌 SOCIALIST PUBLIC TRANSPORT?

I experienced a sort of a socialist public transport

I went to a bus stop: no directions, no timetables visible

I asked some locals for info:
"is here bus to Samobor?"
"da"
and "when?"
they looked confused: "don't know"
"but is here bus to Samobor?"
"da da"

I waited

The bus arrived, I showed the driver some money, to buy a ticket
He said: "Ne Ne Ne"
Free ride I guess

The bus will pass, free of charge, but nobody knows when

#Samobor#Croatia#PublicTransport
Larvitz :fedora: :redhat:

In the past, I had a pretty car-centric life. I commuted to work by car (2x 25 minutes per day) and, for my work as an IT consultant, I drove around 80,000-100,000 kilometers per year.

Then the pandemic came, and everything changed. I started working remotely, and business travel decreased to a minimum. I quickly got used to the additional free time and flexibility, and it made me substantially more productive.

In 2023, I quit my old job and got hired at Red Hat. Since then, I do almost all of my business travel by train, and I genuinely enjoy it.

The difference is profound. In a car, you need to be focused on the road. On a train, you can live—you can work, take a nap, eat something at the bistro, or just watch the world go by. In contrast to driving, it's not lost time; it's usable time.

I never, ever want to go back and am glad that my life nowadays is so much better without being dependent on a car.

#TrainTravel#RemoteWork#WorkLifeBalance
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

And yes, I know #InformalPublicTransit is common in most developing nations.

  • Regardless if #Siquijor, #Safarga or #Izmir, I've seen anything from Pickups to Minibuses where one can just hop on and merely knocks on the roof to signal for a stop.

Pretty shure #Uber will just inevitability push it's subcontracted pseudo-freelancers to adopt Minivans and then operate both #Minibus and #Delivery from those.

  • Which is really a good picture of how shit #PublicTransport and #PublicTransit in the #USA are, cuz even my 200k hometown has a better bus and transport network than most million-people cities in the #USA that have no excuse (i.e. being bankrupt and having no sizeable economy nor commuters) not to have them!
YouTubeSo Uber reinvented the bus…By Trains Are Awesome
#publictransport#publictransit#usa
Trufi Association

If fire risk is the standard, shouldn't fossil-fuel vehicles be the first to be banned? Not e-bikes on trains?

Lithium battery fires are rare. Victoria’s proposed e-bike and e-scooter train ban punishes clean mobility, ignoring the far greater fire and safety hazards of petrol-powered transport.

via xitter @theage @pwhatch
theage.com.au/national/victori

The Age · Ban on e-bikes on trains a response over the top, cycling advocates sayBy Patrick Hatch
#Australia#publictransport#ActiveTransport
Fedi.Video

If you're interested in public transport and transit, you can find a playlist of PeerTube videos all about this topic here:

🚋 fedi.video/w/p/tR7YP3hu4JgBhwx

- Watching on a phone: Swipe up first two videos at bottom to browse rest of playlist

- Watching on a computer: Choose video by scrolling through playlist on right of screen

- Watching embedded: Click ⏭️ or ⏮️ to see next or previous videos in playlist

cc @publictransport

PeerTubePublic Transport & Transit 🚈By fedivideo_playlist_channel
#FeaturedPlaylist#PublicTransport#Transit
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BellingenNSW

Prioritising life over cars

VisionZero - Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death

"Helsinki, like Oslo and Stockholm, have all but eliminated traffic fatalities. Lower road speeds, automated cameras, and clever city design all helped; but it’s the over-arching vision that made it all possible. More than half of Helsinki’s streets have a speed limit of 30 km/h (approximately 20 mph). Smarter street design also played a key role. Pedestrian and cycling infrastructure was prioritized for upgrades in recent years. More and more people started using public transit or bikes, or just walking."
zmescience.com/science/news-sc

In 2024, Australia experienced its worst road toll in over a decade, with 1,300 fatalities.
datahub.roadsafety.gov.au/prog

Can Australia cut road deaths to zero by 2050? Current trends say no. What’s going wrong?
theconversation.com/can-we-cut
#VisionZero #MobilityDesign #cars #speed #RecklessDriving #motorists #CarDominance #TrafficDeaths #pedestrians #PublicTransport #cycling #RoadToll #SacrificeZone #roads #climate

Ciarán Ferrie

Huge demand for the bus in Moycullen for racegoers - about 30 people waiting but there were only nine seats available. Many prospective passengers left to go back to their cars.

People will throng to public transport if it is available but we have to make sure it is reliable. How many of these potential passengers will think twice about relying on the bus next time?

#Galway#PublicTransport
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