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[Gulf Coast Oil Spill]It Ain't Over Yet
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So how many buses do you think it would take so that you could just walk out of your sub-division and grab one in like ten minutes? 100s? 1000s?
How do you even know if the bus that just stopped is going where you need to go?
Traffic will get even worse if you have buses stopping and blocking the road every 50 feet.
It's rather too late for that.
Jesus. Fucking. Christ.
There's incompetence, and then there's BP.
Why would you need a bus passing through suburban areas every 10 minutes? People are unable to intelligently manage their time?
We have bus routes.
I'm assuming some hyperbole here with the "every 50 feet", but one of the purposes of a bus system is to decrease traffic.
That's like saying, it's too late to stop the leak, so whatever. (Oh wait...) Even if it's too late to prevent it from happening, whether it be oil spilling out or bad urban planning, we still have to FIX the damn thing eventually, by cleaning up the oil or replanning our urban centres (and rethinking our productivity models). As much as people are complaining about how it'd be hard or painful or whatever, there's always a comeuppance for this sort of societal shit... always. It's like a Shakespeare play - you can repent now and fix things, or you can wait for the shit to hit the fan so everybody and their mom dies gruesomely.
I'm not talking about a stroll around town here. This would be for commuting.
As for traffic, we manage it in cities with tons of congestion. This would be on open roads where you see a car every once in a while.
"Welp, you missed the one bus for today, I guess you don't go to work. Have fun being unemployed!"
MKR doesn't seem to think we need routes.
Not much. There is a sub-division every like block or less. And by and large there are no sidewalks between them. Or even into them.
The hell? I didn't say this.
I don't think you read what I said and understood it fully.
Also, if you have a dedicated subway/train system, then you just need to bus people from the 'burbs into the nearest stop for the subway. A few stops per subdivision, max, and you're good to go. There's no reason to make multiple stops along major streets. Also I have no idea where you're from, but in Houston we basically have a "bus lane" for the metro. It wouldn't be out of the question to create such a thing, particularly if traffic is going down because more people are taking the bus.
However as much as I think this system would work excellently in most major cities, Houston is definitely a city that may be too far gone as far as sprawl goes.
In Dallas the bus typically stops every other block. Most routes it's a 7-15 minute wait between buses. Which is easily enough time to get to the closest stop to you if you plan ahead.
I can't create threads since I'm jailed.
In my opinion, the simplest way to offset unsubsidized gas prices is to offer subsidies to people whose jobs require them to live in a low-population density environment, such as farmers, ranchers, etc. You could transfer some of the gas subsidies to this, if necessary. The trick is offering subsidies to people who MUST live in the country, versus people who do live in the country (or suburbs) but don't HAVE to. Also, you could offer tax incentives or something for people whose work address is less than X miles from their home address, or people who work from home X days per week.
100% of us clearly don't fall into a category that encompasses only 10-25% of Americans?
HamHamJ, I found your response a little disingenuous, for the reasons other posters have already noted.
What I can really work with you on is this,
How large are these blocks, are we talking city blocks, or "blocks" that are essentially the space between two streets that can encompass N>5 miles? We should be both blaming city planners for deciding they could skimp by not paving a sidewalk/painting a bicycle lane.
I'm not seeing a problem with fucking gated communities over.
No. That was easy to answer.
Yeah I don't really have a problem with that. Nor the fact that suburbanites that moved 45 mins out of the city to get a giant house, with the giant yard, have to suck it up a bit.
Indeed. Coincidences are weird like that. I had assumed there was a tectonic fault running along the eastern seaboard. Apparently this is not the case.
That doesn't make sense. If there's a problem with any of the equipment you want to know ASAP. That way if a problem is discovered you can shut down production now, during normal operations, rather than waiting for a system-stressing event to occur.
Semi-related, the whole "shut down the 33 rigs because they might be dangerous" logic is even more baffling when contrasted against the government's stance on dispersants, which are being allowed even though we know they're dangerous.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/briefing-press-secretary-robert-gibbs-treasury-secretary-tim-geithner-under-secreta
Except that oil doesn't "weather" underwater plus
EPA data show dispersants plus oil are more toxic than either alone
I thought this was supposed to be the pro-science White House take BP's dick out of your mouths for 5 seconds and listen to your goddamn scientists harglbarglgargbl
But hey, at least they're taking it seriously, right?
Yeah, yuck it up Ricky and Lucy. Coming up next:
Hopefully we'll detect alien life near our own solar system someday, and everyone will freak out and mobilize to prepare the Earth for possible invasion/look good for first contact.