Conveniently, that bus stop also punishes anyone else who makes the mistake of waiting for a bus there.
Ugh, I just want a bench.
The bus also only arrives once every hour (inconsistently)
Ha, I get it! This is funny because there are no American planners.
American planner here. We don’t actually get to plan shit. We end up being the middlemen between developers and Council. We explain all the rules we didn’t get to make, the developers explain to council how hlthey don’t even want to follow those rules, then Council overrules us and gives the devs whatever they want.
I have seen it in action in city council meetings.
No shortage of American planners. They just work in hedge funds and board rooms
I stand corrected!
So it’s not funny? Oh dear
Guangzhou, China
Anti-Homeless Spikes to keep them from finding shelter from the rain.China has an oversupply issue in housing construction in general. it is… as if the problem is not merely building too few houses (as some us centric yimby people believe) but rather an unjust system of resource distribution?
And yet they have millions of what they call “vagrants” how curious.
The constantly connected seem to have a tough time parsing available housing and homelessness. Like, there are 100 homeless and 200 houses, why problem?!
maybe solve a housing crisis instead?
Is this whataboutism?
No because the post is specially about how the Chinese don’t do this, so it’s relevant.
Man up, America! Two hours each way in crushing, soul destroying traffic is PATRIOTIC. What’s good for billionaires is good for the Regular Guy in the job.
I doubt even the chinese can build a train line from scratch in 3h
The train should move the people that distance in 3h, not be planned in 3h
Whoosh
That’s what she (the train) said
How dare you assume the trains gender, they used to be a she
You’re telling me a shrimp fried this rice?
But you don’t understand how big the US is! We can fit two Chinas in Texas! And we can put five Texases in Texas! Omg it’s so huuuuge you guys, public transportation would just not work here, like, ever!!
- some bootlicker, probably
This comment section goes to weird places, man.
Before Trump, America had democracy and no trains
Now it has no trains and no democracy
In America, even if you live in a city with good public transit, there’s frequently no way to get from one city to another. Greyhound routes are extremely limited, Amtrak seems to just loop around major metropolitan cities extremely slowly, and the price of a rental car has gotten out of control after COVID.
So even if you live in a city with strong infrastructure, you still have to buy a car unless you’re willing to be stuck in that city 99.9% of the time.
Sometime in my lifetime, I’d like to see America catch up with the rest of the world.
American planners wanting to draw something?
They rather use AI to generate their shitty ideas.
If we got rid of private property rights it would be a lot easier to build infrastructure.
Just sayin’
Yeah but even in places where a railroad already has right of way for train tracks they can’t get around to doing any upgrades
It’s billionaire cabal planners. The world is a juicy apple to them. America is just one more country. Not much special about it anymore.
Yeah china is much more efficient and cuts out the middle man by just killing the homeless and taking their organs.
It sounds like a great train system they have in China. Too bad you’ll be barred from buying tickets if you cross too many pedestrian red lights. This doesn’t make the US better, it just shows it’s not black and white.
so confidently incorrect
Fun fact: Before 2015, you were banned from buying tickets if you are the 2nd child (cuz One Child Policy) and your parents refused to pay the fines. I mean they didn’t even give you a legal identity, didn’t even recognize that you exist.
China: Force these people out of their homes, bulldoze them down, to make room for the rail line. Make people work 18 hours per day so we can build a railway that will fall apart within three years.
American Leftists: I wish we were more like China!
You say that as though the US doesn’t exercise eminent domain frequently. It’s a non-starter of an argument.
