OT: Public transport...

[Commander Kinsey]

Can\'t we just get rid of public transport? I asked Google Maps for a route from my house to somewhere I want to go on holiday.

2 hours by car, 6 hours by public transport. Dafuq?

Even more ridiculous, 6 hours by public transport, 7 hours by bicycle! Public transport is hardly faster than a bicycle!

1 day on foot! Trains go a whole 4 times faster than me walking!

Just close them down.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gkpnorzkr4v3w07/transport.jpg?dl=0

 

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Tuesday, May 2, 2023 at 3:20:15 PM UTC+10, Commander Kinsey wrote:

Can\'t we just get rid of public transport? I asked Google Maps for a route from my house to somewhere I want to go on holiday.

2 hours by car, 6 hours by public transport. Dafuq?

Even more ridiculous, 6 hours by public transport, 7 hours by bicycle! Public transport is hardly faster than a bicycle!

1 day on foot! Trains go a whole 4 times faster than me walking!

Just close them down.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gkpnorzkr4v3w07/transport.jpg?dl=0

Public transport is intended to get people to work, rather than taking them on holiday. The fact that it doesn\'t do a very good job when you ask it do something it wasn\'t designed to do isn\'t a good reason to get rid of it.

Commander Kinsey is an egocentric idiot, so he won\'t see it that way.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[Martin Brown]

On 02/05/2023 06:50, Anthony William Sloman wrote:

On Tuesday, May 2, 2023 at 3:20:15 PM UTC+10, Commander Kinsey wrote:
Can\'t we just get rid of public transport? I asked Google Maps for a route from my house to somewhere I want to go on holiday.

2 hours by car, 6 hours by public transport. Dafuq?

Even more ridiculous, 6 hours by public transport, 7 hours by bicycle! Public transport is hardly faster than a bicycle!

1 day on foot! Trains go a whole 4 times faster than me walking!

Just close them down.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gkpnorzkr4v3w07/transport.jpg?dl=0

Public transport is intended to get people to work, rather than taking them on holiday. The fact that it doesn\'t do a very good job when you ask it do something it wasn\'t designed to do isn\'t a good reason to get rid of it.

Commander Kinsey is an egocentric idiot, so he won\'t see it that way.

He is a rather worthless incompetent but prolific British internet troll
- best off ignored in your kill file. He posts things just to add noise.

--
Martin Brown

 

[Peeler]

On Tue, 02 May 2023 06:20:06 +0100, Birdbrain Macaw (aka \"Commander Kinsey\",
\"James Wilkinson\", \"Steven Wanker\",\"Bruce Farquar\", \"Fred Johnson, etc.),
the pathological resident idiot and attention whore of all the uk ngs,
blathered again:

<FLUSH the subnormal sociopathic trolling attention whore\'s latest
attention-baiting sick bullshit unread again>

--
damduck-egg@yahoo.co.uk about Birdbrain Macaw\'s (now \"Commander Kinsey\" LOL)
trolling:
\"He is a well known attention seeking troll and every reply you
make feeds him.
Starts many threads most of which die quick as on the UK groups anyone
with sense Kill filed him ages ago which is why he now cross posts to
the US groups for a new audience.
This thread was unusual in that it derived and continued without him
to a large extent and his silly questioning is an attempt to get
noticed again.\"
MID: <be195d5jh0hktj054mvfu7ef9ap854mjdb@4ax.com>

--
ItsJoanNotJoann addressing Birdbrain Macaw\'s (now \"Commander Kinsey\" LOL):
\"You\'re an annoying troll and I\'m done with you and your
stupidity.\"
MID: <e39a6a7f-9677-4e78-a866-0590fe5bbc38@googlegroups.com>

--
AndyW addressing Birdbrain:
\"Troll or idiot?...
You have been presented with a viewpoint with information, reasoning,
historical cases, citations and references to back it up and wilfully
ignore all going back to your idea which has no supporting information.\"
MID: <KaToA.263621$g93.262397@fx10.am4>

--
Phil Lee adressing Birdbrain Macaw:
\"You are too stupid to be wasting oxygen.\"
MID: <uv2u4clurscpat3g29l7aksbohsassufe2@4ax.com>

--
Phil Lee describing Birdbrain Macaw:
\"I\'ve never seen such misplaced pride in being a fucking moronic motorist.\"
MID: <j7fb6ct83igfd1g99rmu4gh9vf610ra3jk@4ax.com>

--
Tony944 addressing Birdbrain Macaw:
\"I seen and heard many people but you are on top of list being first class
ass hole jerk. ...You fit under unconditional Idiot and should be put in
mental institution.
MID: <VLCdnYC5HK1Z4S3FnZ2dnUU7-dPNnZ2d@giganews.com>

--
Pelican to Birdbrain Macaw:
\"Ok. I\'m persuaded . You are an idiot.\"
MID: <obru31$nao$3@dont-email.me>

--
DerbyDad03 addressing Birdbrain Macaw (now \"Commander Kinsey\" LOL):
\"Frigging Idiot. Get the hell out of my thread.\"
MID: <4d907253-b3b9-40d4-be4d-b32d453937e0@googlegroups.com>

--
Kerr Mudd-John about Birdbrain Macaw (now \"Commander Kinsey LOL):
\"It\'s like arguing with a demented frog.\"
MID: <op.yy3c02cqmsr2db@dell3100.workgroup>

--
Rob Morley about Birdbrain:
\"He\'s a perennial idiot\"
MID: <20170519215057.56a1f1d4@Mars>

--
JoeyDee to Birdbrain
\"I apologize for thinking you were a jerk. You\'re just someone with an IQ
lower than your age, and I accept that as a reason for your comments.\"
MID: <0001HW.1EE2D20300E7BECC700004A512CF@news.eternal-september.org>

--
Sam Plusnet about Birdbrain (now \"Commander Kinsey\" LOL):
\"He\'s just desperate to be noticed. Any attention will do, no matter how
negative it may be.\"
MID: <rOmdndd_O7u8iK7EnZ2dnUU78TGdnZ2d@brightview.co.uk>

--
francis about Birdbrain (now \"Commander Kinsey\" LOL):
\"He seems to have a reputation as someone of limited intelligence\"
MID: <cf06cdd9-8bb8-469c-800a-0dfa4c2f9ffa@googlegroups.com>

--
Peter Moylan about Birdbrain (now \"Commander Kinsey\" LOL):
\"If people like JWS didn\'t exist, we would have to find some other way to
explain the concept of \"invincible ignorance\".\"
MID: <otofc8$tbg$2@dont-email.me>

--
Lewis about nym-shifting Birdbrain:
\"Typical narcissist troll, thinks his shit is so grand he has the right to
try to force it on everyone
MID: <slrnq16c27.1h4g.g.kreme@jaka.local>

 

[Bill Gill]

On 5/2/2023 12:20 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:

Can\'t we just get rid of public transport?  I asked Google Maps for a
route from my house to somewhere I want to go on holiday.

2 hours by car, 6 hours by public transport.  Dafuq?

Even more ridiculous, 6 hours by public transport, 7 hours by bicycle!
Public transport is hardly faster than a bicycle!

1 day on foot!  Trains go a whole 4 times faster than me walking!

Just close them down.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gkpnorzkr4v3w07/transport.jpg?dl=0

In the May Scientific American there was an article about public
transport. They point to Seattle as a place where it works. You
just have to set it up right and run it frequently enough.

Bill

 

[Carlos E.R.]

On 2023-05-02 07:20, Commander Kinsey wrote:

Can\'t we just get rid of public transport?  I asked Google Maps for a
route from my house to somewhere I want to go on holiday.

2 hours by car, 6 hours by public transport.  Dafuq?

Even more ridiculous, 6 hours by public transport, 7 hours by bicycle!
Public transport is hardly faster than a bicycle!

1 day on foot!  Trains go a whole 4 times faster than me walking!

Just close them down.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gkpnorzkr4v3w07/transport.jpg?dl=0

A taxi is also Public Transport.

--
Cheers, Carlos.

 

[Peeler]

On Tue, 2 May 2023 08:02:49 -0500, Bill Gill, another absolutely brain dead,
troll-feeding, senile ASSHOLE, blathered:

In the May Scientific American there was an article about public
transport. They point to Seattle as a place where it works. You
just have to set it up right and run it frequently enough.

Bill

Maybe you had better read some articles about the absolutely idiotic baits
used by of some of the most dumbest trolls like him, you troll-feeding
senile asshole!

 

[Peeler]

On Tue, 2 May 2023 15:27:14 +0200, cretinous Carlos E.R., another brain dead
troll-feeding senile ASSHOLE, blathered:


> A taxi is also Public Transport.

Just HOW retarded does an absolutely silly bait set out by the trolling
Scottish wanker have to be that some miserable senile ASSHOLE like you will
NOT happily and thankfully take it?

 

[T i m]

On 02/05/2023 14:27, Carlos E.R. wrote:

<snip>

A taxi is also Public Transport.

What about rental cycles and eScooters?

A mate and some friends spent a long weekend at a beer festival in
Munich and said they were fantastic. Pick some up from where you are,
activate them via the app, go where you want and log out and leave them.
If you come out of a place (typically a tourist attraction) and the
scooters you had were gone, there would generally be some a short
distance away.

He said the difference between there and say where they have trialled
here in the UK is respect and social responsibility.

They weren\'t left all over the footpath but out of the way, up against a
wall or fence.

They were never found damaged, especially vandalised and any that were
left a bit out of the way or too flat to use were collected up and / or
the battery replaced for a fully charged one.

I have reported many of the \'Boris / Santander\' hire bikes abandoned
here (well outside of their typical patch) and they are always recovered
pretty promptly (before the local scum destroy them).

When did parents stop teaching the respect for other peoples property to
their children, as can generally seen by all the damage and graffiti on
all sorts of public transport and property?

Cheers, T i m

 

[Chris]

Bill Gill <billnews2@cox.net> wrote:

On 5/2/2023 12:20 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
Can\'t we just get rid of public transport?  I asked Google Maps for a
route from my house to somewhere I want to go on holiday.

2 hours by car, 6 hours by public transport.  Dafuq?

Even more ridiculous, 6 hours by public transport, 7 hours by bicycle!
Public transport is hardly faster than a bicycle!

1 day on foot!  Trains go a whole 4 times faster than me walking!

Just close them down.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gkpnorzkr4v3w07/transport.jpg?dl=0

In the May Scientific American there was an article about public
transport. They point to Seattle as a place where it works. You
just have to set it up right and run it frequently enough.

For those not aware about Scotland, Braemar is a small rural town. Public
transport in large mostly rural and mountainous region like Scotland is
either gonna be limited or expensive.

The efficiencies of a NA city don\'t translate.

 

[Bob F]

On 5/2/2023 6:27 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2023-05-02 07:20, Commander Kinsey wrote:
Can\'t we just get rid of public transport?  I asked Google Maps for a
route from my house to somewhere I want to go on holiday.

2 hours by car, 6 hours by public transport.  Dafuq?

Even more ridiculous, 6 hours by public transport, 7 hours by bicycle!
Public transport is hardly faster than a bicycle!

1 day on foot!  Trains go a whole 4 times faster than me walking!

Just close them down.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gkpnorzkr4v3w07/transport.jpg?dl=0

A taxi is also Public Transport.

And if you drive, then you have to deal with parking. If you work
downtown, that can be difficult and expensive.

For me in Seattle, it takes me about twice the drive time to get
somewhere by bus or bicycle. Less, if traffic is bad, because traffic
rarely affects bicycles.

The bicycle keeps me healthy.

 

[bitrex]

On 5/2/2023 1:20 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:

Can\'t we just get rid of public transport?  I asked Google Maps for a
route from my house to somewhere I want to go on holiday.

2 hours by car, 6 hours by public transport.  Dafuq?

Even more ridiculous, 6 hours by public transport, 7 hours by bicycle!
Public transport is hardly faster than a bicycle!

1 day on foot!  Trains go a whole 4 times faster than me walking!

Just close them down.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gkpnorzkr4v3w07/transport.jpg?dl=0

Stop cross posting your baby bullshit to s.e.d! We have plenty of our
own baby bullshit here that we prefer.

 

[Lasse Langwadt Christensen]

tirsdag den 2. maj 2023 kl. 15.44.49 UTC+2 skrev T i m:

On 02/05/2023 14:27, Carlos E.R. wrote:

snip
A taxi is also Public Transport.

What about rental cycles and eScooters?

A mate and some friends spent a long weekend at a beer festival in
Munich and said they were fantastic. Pick some up from where you are,
activate them via the app, go where you want and log out and leave them.
If you come out of a place (typically a tourist attraction) and the
scooters you had were gone, there would generally be some a short
distance away.

He said the difference between there and say where they have trialled
here in the UK is respect and social responsibility.

They weren\'t left all over the footpath but out of the way, up against a
wall or fence.

have escooters here too very convenient, they use GPS to make sure you can\'t park or drive them where it isn\'t legal
and to end your ride you have to take a picture of how you parked it, I think there\'s also a bonus
for parking at the designated parking areas where the recharged ones are dropped off

but the idea is basically ruined, because helmets were made mandatory so unless you walk around with a helmet
or want to risk a 200€ fine they are not an option

 

[Mark Lloyd]

On 5/2/23 08:02, Bill Gill wrote:

On 5/2/2023 12:20 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
Can\'t we just get rid of public transport?  I asked Google Maps for a
route from my house to somewhere I want to go on holiday.

2 hours by car, 6 hours by public transport.  Dafuq?

Even more ridiculous, 6 hours by public transport, 7 hours by bicycle!
Public transport is hardly faster than a bicycle!

1 day on foot!  Trains go a whole 4 times faster than me walking!

Just close them down.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gkpnorzkr4v3w07/transport.jpg?dl=0

In the May Scientific American there was an article about public
transport.  They point to Seattle as a place where it works.  You
just have to set it up right and run it frequently enough.

I rode the bus when I was going to college. There was one but that left
5 minutes after I got out of class. There wasn\'t another for 95 minutes.

> Bill

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

\"Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers
that may never be questioned.\"

 

[John Larkin]

On Tue, 2 May 2023 08:39:03 -0700 (PDT), Lasse Langwadt Christensen
<langwadt@fonz.dk> wrote:

tirsdag den 2. maj 2023 kl. 15.44.49 UTC+2 skrev T i m:
On 02/05/2023 14:27, Carlos E.R. wrote:

snip
A taxi is also Public Transport.

What about rental cycles and eScooters?

A mate and some friends spent a long weekend at a beer festival in
Munich and said they were fantastic. Pick some up from where you are,
activate them via the app, go where you want and log out and leave them.
If you come out of a place (typically a tourist attraction) and the
scooters you had were gone, there would generally be some a short
distance away.

He said the difference between there and say where they have trialled
here in the UK is respect and social responsibility.

They weren\'t left all over the footpath but out of the way, up against a
wall or fence.

have escooters here too very convenient, they use GPS to make sure you can\'t park or drive them where it isn\'t legal
and to end your ride you have to take a picture of how you parked it, I think there\'s also a bonus
for parking at the designated parking areas where the recharged ones are dropped off

but the idea is basically ruined, because helmets were made mandatory so unless you walk around with a helmet
or want to risk a 200€ fine they are not an option

There\'s an article in today\'s SF Chronicle about kids in affluent
suburbs going crazy with expensive 30+ MPH e-bikes, riding in gangs in
parks and in the hallways of school buildings. Their parents get tired
of driving them to/from school and e-bikes are cheaper than getting
them a car.

Not to mention the fires from cheap Chinese batteries.

People ride the scooters on sidewalks and injure people too. Or ride
in streets and kill themselves. Three of my employees have had run-ins
between electric scooters and bikes, with cars.

Soon e-bikes and scooters will be colliding with driverless cars.

It used to be illegal for unlicensed people to operate powered
unlicensed vehicles on roadways. It used to be illegal to drive a
powered vehicle on a sidewalk. Not much is illegal any more.

 

[Lasse Langwadt Christensen]

tirsdag den 2. maj 2023 kl. 18.16.27 UTC+2 skrev John Larkin:

On Tue, 2 May 2023 08:39:03 -0700 (PDT), Lasse Langwadt Christensen
lang...@fonz.dk> wrote:

tirsdag den 2. maj 2023 kl. 15.44.49 UTC+2 skrev T i m:
On 02/05/2023 14:27, Carlos E.R. wrote:

snip
A taxi is also Public Transport.

What about rental cycles and eScooters?

A mate and some friends spent a long weekend at a beer festival in
Munich and said they were fantastic. Pick some up from where you are,
activate them via the app, go where you want and log out and leave them.
If you come out of a place (typically a tourist attraction) and the
scooters you had were gone, there would generally be some a short
distance away.

He said the difference between there and say where they have trialled
here in the UK is respect and social responsibility.

They weren\'t left all over the footpath but out of the way, up against a
wall or fence.

have escooters here too very convenient, they use GPS to make sure you can\'t park or drive them where it isn\'t legal
and to end your ride you have to take a picture of how you parked it, I think there\'s also a bonus
for parking at the designated parking areas where the recharged ones are dropped off

but the idea is basically ruined, because helmets were made mandatory so unless you walk around with a helmet
or want to risk a 200€ fine they are not an option
There\'s an article in today\'s SF Chronicle about kids in affluent
suburbs going crazy with expensive 30+ MPH e-bikes, riding in gangs in
parks and in the hallways of school buildings. Their parents get tired
of driving them to/from school and e-bikes are cheaper than getting
them a car.

Not to mention the fires from cheap Chinese batteries.

People ride the scooters on sidewalks and injure people too. Or ride
in streets and kill themselves. Three of my employees have had run-ins
between electric scooters and bikes, with cars.

Soon e-bikes and scooters will be colliding with driverless cars.

It used to be illegal for unlicensed people to operate powered
unlicensed vehicles on roadways. It used to be illegal to drive a
powered vehicle on a sidewalk. Not much is illegal any more.

over here in the civilized world, ebikes and escooters are type approved and speed limited
and sidewalks are only for walking

30 years ago all the kids had tuned mopeds, same difference just more smoke and noise

 

[John Larkin]

On Tue, 2 May 2023 11:08:48 -0500, Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid>
wrote:

On 5/2/23 08:02, Bill Gill wrote:
On 5/2/2023 12:20 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
Can\'t we just get rid of public transport?  I asked Google Maps for a
route from my house to somewhere I want to go on holiday.

2 hours by car, 6 hours by public transport.  Dafuq?

Even more ridiculous, 6 hours by public transport, 7 hours by bicycle!
Public transport is hardly faster than a bicycle!

1 day on foot!  Trains go a whole 4 times faster than me walking!

Just close them down.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gkpnorzkr4v3w07/transport.jpg?dl=0

In the May Scientific American there was an article about public
transport.  They point to Seattle as a place where it works.  You
just have to set it up right and run it frequently enough.

I rode the bus when I was going to college. There was one but that left
5 minutes after I got out of class. There wasn\'t another for 95 minutes.

Bill

Ski areas often have part-time, usually retired, bus drivers, working
mostly at peak times. Lots of small busses with part-time drivers
would be great, but the unions wouldn\'t allow it.

A lot of retired people would be happy to get out a few hours a day
and be helpful.

San Franciso used to have swarms of \"jitneys\", small private vans to
move people around. The politicians and unions made them illegal.

 

[John Larkin]

On Tue, 2 May 2023 14:44:41 +0100, T i m <individual@spaced.me.uk>
wrote:

On 02/05/2023 14:27, Carlos E.R. wrote:

snip

A taxi is also Public Transport.

What about rental cycles and eScooters?

A mate and some friends spent a long weekend at a beer festival in
Munich and said they were fantastic. Pick some up from where you are,
activate them via the app, go where you want and log out and leave them.
If you come out of a place (typically a tourist attraction) and the
scooters you had were gone, there would generally be some a short
distance away.

He said the difference between there and say where they have trialled
here in the UK is respect and social responsibility.

They weren\'t left all over the footpath but out of the way, up against a
wall or fence.

They were never found damaged, especially vandalised and any that were
left a bit out of the way or too flat to use were collected up and / or
the battery replaced for a fully charged one.

I have reported many of the \'Boris / Santander\' hire bikes abandoned
here (well outside of their typical patch) and they are always recovered
pretty promptly (before the local scum destroy them).

When did parents stop teaching the respect for other peoples property to
their children, as can generally seen by all the damage and graffiti on
all sorts of public transport and property?

Cheers, T i m

The War On Poverty deliberately created an underclass of fatherless
kids.

 

[Snit]

On May 2, 2023 at 9:49:52 AM MST, \"John Larkin\" wrote
<4nf25id1hv2kcvuieks5jr2r9bbho80es2@4ax.com>:

On Tue, 2 May 2023 14:44:41 +0100, T i m <individual@spaced.me.uk
wrote:

On 02/05/2023 14:27, Carlos E.R. wrote:

snip

A taxi is also Public Transport.

What about rental cycles and eScooters?

A mate and some friends spent a long weekend at a beer festival in
Munich and said they were fantastic. Pick some up from where you are,
activate them via the app, go where you want and log out and leave them.
If you come out of a place (typically a tourist attraction) and the
scooters you had were gone, there would generally be some a short
distance away.

He said the difference between there and say where they have trialled
here in the UK is respect and social responsibility.

They weren\'t left all over the footpath but out of the way, up against a
wall or fence.

They were never found damaged, especially vandalised and any that were
left a bit out of the way or too flat to use were collected up and / or
the battery replaced for a fully charged one.

I have reported many of the \'Boris / Santander\' hire bikes abandoned
here (well outside of their typical patch) and they are always recovered
pretty promptly (before the local scum destroy them).

When did parents stop teaching the respect for other peoples property to
their children, as can generally seen by all the damage and graffiti on
all sorts of public transport and property?

Cheers, T i m

The War On Poverty deliberately created an underclass of fatherless
kids.

Huh? Cite?


--
Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel somehow superior by attacking the messenger.

They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.

 

[Ed P]

On 5/2/2023 12:08 PM, Mark Lloyd wrote:

I rode the bus when I was going to college. There was one but that left
5 minutes after I got out of class. There wasn\'t another for 95 minutes.

What can we conclude from that?

Choose one:
Public transportation will never work because you have to wait 90
minutes for a bus
or
If more people took the bus they would run them more frequently so the
wait is minimal. Very convenient and cost effective.