The best part is most taxi services adapted and have an app now too. I can get a yellow taxi in NYC from an app no problem. It's obviously far less centralized than Uber and you might need one for every city (or, yanno, just have your home city, and then when visiting elsewhere, do it how us old people did it, and just.....call for a taxi), but it exists.
I spend less that 5% and drive 90 miles a day (in 1/2 time than it took me to travel 40 miles using public trans). I could still take public trans for my commute, but it would cost me over 4X per day to do so. If I moved into the city my travel costs may go down, but my housing costs would skyrocket and my quality of life would drop.
Of course you're free to choose your own quality of life, but i'd contend having a 90 mile daily round trip commute is a pretty big blow to a good quality of life.
Especially if it ends up fucking up your back, like excessive sitting did for me, and millions of others.
Can't believe we've done so little to combat housing costs in cities. It's unreal.
The insanity of American transportation is linked heavily to the insanity of American zoning standards, mind you.
It's very difficult to service many if not most American metropolitan areas simply because they are so much less dense than metropolitan areas elsewhere. This is partially because of the ingrained car culture that crops up in the absence of broad public transportation, but also because of a rather baffling aversion to mixed-use zoning of the sort where you'd see walkable, medium density communities cropping up with people living in buildings above communal and commercial areas.
Oh yeah I should also mention that initiatives against public transportation in the United States kinda start cropping up in a big way shortly after public transportation in most of America was desegregated. *sips tea* So there's that particular animus favoring suburb/exurb style communities also, which you see pretty blatantly on display in the way propertied rural people talk about urban areas as being "crime infested" or whatever Reagan would have called it.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
*points up*
We get it.Oh yeah I should also mention that initiatives against public transportation in the United States kinda start cropping up in a big way shortly after public transportation in most of America was desegregated. *sips tea* So there's that particular animus favoring suburb/exurb style communities also, which you see pretty blatantly on display in the way propertied rural people talk about urban areas as being "crime infested" or whatever Reagan would have called it.
Public assistance is a service. Its recipients aren't skimming profits from anyone's need to have somewhere to live, landlords do.Using that line of thinking, everyone on welfare is a parasite by definition as well.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi