depends. if I can use one of the vertical bars, going from the floor to the ceiling, I do that. but there’s a lot of space between them (not every seat) and I’m a short person. I can reach the loop, I can’t reach the handrail the hang from. so if the bus is crowded, I’ll wind up on a loop.
luckily, I get on my current daily commute early enough to grab a seat most days, but a previous job had me hanging from the loop every day.
One of the better features of e bikes is that you won't get into sweating or exhaustion as easy as with a regular bike. This means you can just cover yourself in some plastic poncho to stay dry while riding without getting damp inside from sweating.
To add to this you won’t sweat as much in heat either because you can wear breathable clothing and the wind from your movement really cools you off substantially on a bike even without pedal assist so with it I’d imagine you’d barely break a sweat barring high humidity.
I dont know how are bus in your country but here they are really bigs and not rarely they drive 2/3 together what makes the traffic slowly and by read traffic light everything stops not only in the direction from the read traffic lights but in all directions because the bus blocks everything. If the all people in the bus drives a car the traffic would be more fluid. I accept the bus makes less pollution but not better traffic. When im a little late for work and i see a bus its done … at least 15m stoped in the trafic is guaranteed
After reading up on this I’m actually going to have to side with the NIMBY’s on this one. Public space is maybe the only thing in California that’s in shorter supply than housing. And reportedly there are plenty of surface parking lots that could be built on since the university needs more housing.
The problem here is NIMBYs aren’t acting in good faith, if UC did take up on that suggestion, you know they will force UC to start from scratch and still fight UC every step of the way
I’m a Berkeley alum and the counterpoint is that, while People’s Park is some (relatively) rare green space near downtown Berkeley, it has been, for the past 20 years, solely the domain of the homeless, drug-addicted, and mentally unwell. It’s not usable public space for most residents. You cannot have a peaceful picnic in People’s Park. The housing proposal included a facility to house and offer services for homeless people, to its credit.
I have mixed feelings about it being turned into housing, but it was unusable as a park and Berkeley has a severe housing shortage. Only freshmen* are guaranteed on-campus housing, a large fraction of the housing in town is owned and operated by a convicted human trafficker, and there was a highly-publicized story about a student who recently completed his degree by living in SoCal and flying to Berkeley a few times a week. The situation is quite dire and Berkeley is really doing quite well when it comes to not having surface parking. There are a couple of lots near the football stadium that are surface lots, but most everything else is a parking structure, usually with an activated roof of some sort.
It’s funny because they’re starting to build a ddi near me and the whole time I’m thinking how this will basically cut off a whole community from pedestrian access. Also, I lived in Florida for a while and I have to say that state is where the range of mediocre to abysmal civil engineers go to find work. Everything is designed in the most stupidly thought out way possible.
Yeah I want to see option three where whatever imaginary number of people exactly comfortably fits into either 100 fully detached homes OR 100 apartments in a single block (realistically I don’t think there is a number of people both those things serve equally) intergrate into the natural environment of their new island home in a mutually beneficial way. The fundamental claim of this post is “we cannot coexist with nature. The only viable way for us to provide housing for humans is in a way that is in direct competition with the wellbeing of their environment” is foolish and the root of the issues it claims to be trying to solve.
The house lets you shut out and avoid other people, which is vitally important for safety. People are not good, and they are best avoided when possible. They will hurt you, and enclosed cramped spaces like apartments offer nothing but opportunities and reasons for violence.
This is so cool! My only experience of St. Paul was flying into the airport for a layover during a snowstorm. It was exactly how I imagined the metropoli of Minnesota. I wish I could have explored further, but the layover was a very brief one.
I used to love making maps and thinking of ways roads and through ways connected together. Now I just do it with random thoughts.
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