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Americans can understand if you phrase it differently.
“You know how sometimes, you go to a big event, and the parking is so far away from the event that they have to ferry people from the parking lots to the event using a bus? Well, this is just like that, except you park at home.”
Is that… commonism?
Commuteism
Yep. Textbook.
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This is like baby proofing the world for Americans.
Sounds amazing?! The bus just picks you up at home?
Well, even when you park in the parking lot, you have to walk to the area where the bus stops in order to pick you up. For the sake of convenience, let’s call that area a “bus stop.” So, you simply need to find the “bus stop” near your home.
Okay but when you drive to the “bus stop” near your home, where do you park your pickup truck? And, are there multiple sizes of bus? If not, how will my community know that I’m the manliest man, if I don’t roll up in the biggliest vehicle?
That’s the good thing about it: you will roll up in the biggliest vehicle, one bigglier than most people will ever drive themselves!
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That sounds reasonable. So it’s like a meet up point for me, my neighbors, and the bus…
I actually lol’d. (not actually, but I’m in a better mood than I was before reading it, so it’s as close to ‘lol’ as it gets)
Well you have to walk like 5min to the next…
Nevermind, car it is.
I refuse to take any kind of public transport. That’s why I carry my own elevator with me in case I need to enter a skyscraper.
Imagine McDonalds Drive in, but instead of everyone has his own car, everyone has 1 big car they ride in.
Socialism it is 😡
I actually love this way of phrasing it so much I’ve saved your comment.
In America, you have thousands in tiny cars. Weak and undisciplined, unable hold more than four people.
In Germany, one big car on a long steel road carries thousands of people.
There is actually a parking garage below. But you are really incentivised not to come by car, but by public transport. The tram tracks are just out of shot.
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It still blows my mind when I look at Dutch intersections in Google’s street view. They managed to fit cars, bike lanes, and even commuter trains into their intersections without any issue.
In the US, you can only choose 2 of those things. Add a third, someone is going to die.
I have a buddy that went to Amsterdam. He’s a bigger dude and the FIRST thing he told me about his trip was “you have to fucking bike everywhere”. Sounded wonderful to me but his tone of voice suggested otherwise.
I even don’t know what he’s getting at - I’ve never had access to a bike the many times I have been there. Transit and walking are also perfectly viable options and there are still cars outside the center
Every time I visit Amsterdam, first thing I do is take a ferry to Overhoeks, grab a patatje with saté sauce and then proceed to walk through Amsterdam for 8 hours straight. Every time I take different routes. What I’m trying to say here is, it’s a damn fine walkable city.
It’s almost like it’s not black and white. Like I work in a major city. I can walk and bus everywhere I want. But I live in the “countryside”, as far as The Netherlands still has “countryside”, and there’s nothing in walking distance, a few local commodities in biking distance, but I have to take the car for anything serious (like a decent supermarket).
I have a similar situation here in a German village. There are a few supermarkets in 5km distance and more supermarkets + a train station in 10km. But I’m already on the denser country side with having 12 villages in a 5km radius.
I think our bus service is okay as long as it’s not night, weekend or a holiday. With something coming every hour and for 3h half-hourly during afternoon rush hour. How is your bus service?
We don’t have a bus, but busses in my area are not fantastic. The coverage is very sparse, with few direct lines. So if you want to go one town over (5km), it might take you an hour or more, because you always have to go through the regional centre (small city).
My town does have a train station, which takes me to the closest big city in 30 minutes (20km). That train departs every 15 minutes, except for weekends and nights. I can’t conplain too much about the train service, except that it m’s not very fast. But there’s plans to run a fast line as well, an “intercity”
We have people that live in a state called Rhode Island, which is 16x smaller than the Netherlands. It’s insane to hear them bitch about not having a car.
*I’m only comparing the Netherlands to a US state (not country) because Texas is 20x larger than the Netherlands.
These kinds of posts are ignorant at best and elitist at worst. The reality is that mass transit is great for specific living conditions and locations. If you don’t fit into that then it’s worthless and you will need a car. Either these people somehow aren’t aware, or they think that everyone should live like they do.
Yeah… We’re struggling for some reason.
You’re getting to choose more than one?!
They made a new tram lane in Germany, right at the border, and the tram crosses the pretty busy border. I was like: well that’s neat and solves a lot of problems. They put the tram lane on the road and now the tram sits in traffic too
On a christmas markets or similar action i usually go to drink som alcoholic beverages how does it work in us if you have to drive home?
Options are:
Stay at a friends place
Have someone drive you
Get an uber/lyft/taxi
Drive drunk anyway
Ya in order of least to most likely -_-
There’s a reason we have so many drunk driving accidents. The responsible groups will designate one person to not drink at all so they can drive. You’ll see Uber or Lyft a little bit more now too.
Basically everyone just gambles with other people’s lives.
It’s the American Way ^tm
Wait until you hear about parking minimums at bars.
@Fabrik872 @Sine_Fine_Belli Though we’re not the majority, there are plenty of USians who don’t live in sprawl hell and there’s probably some correlation between going to public downtown events and living and/or working near downtown. Suburbanites who commute to a downtown office are likely to be somewhat more familiar with transit options than their neighbors who never leave suburbia.
The American mind cannot comprehend this
The American mind cannot comprehend this
I’ll freely admit that I cannot comprehend the temporal ordering of twitter comments.
Never really figured out Tumblr indentation either
I don’t get it, it’s just a big blur. What’s this post say?
Could it be that your mind cannot comprehend this?
Usually it’s transit + walking + park-and-ride, not ‘giant garage under the market.’ When the space is for people, you don’t need to store cars there.
Ironically this specific market has a giant garage under the market
Which one is it?
Dresden.
Striezelmarkt in Dresden.
You ever think that this meme is just about a moron?
Usually it’s about someone from an hour outside any civilization.
The worst part is when my fellow Americans are very “we tried nothing and we’re out of ideas” about it. Or worse, actively fighting any changes.
Sadly, from my experience in my German city we don’t have the upper hand here. All streets in the city center are completely overcrowded between 4 and 10 pm during our christmas market season. Same with parking garages near the city center.
To be fair, that’s also then a big motivation to take public transport, when you know you won’t find a parking spot. Kind of difficult to fix that without people rushing in to unfix it.
That happens in every city that has a popular event ever
it seems the british mind also cannot, cos imgur’s blocked here 🥀
Weird I’m in the UK and have the image… ah, forget that, while I’m not on vpn now I was earlier and it must have cached
Holy shit… im in uk visiting. Had no idea this is what the internet is like now.
The American reaction will either be confusion or envy, there is no in-between.
I’m the latter.
you missed fear
This American doesn’t want to be around that many people in the first place
Me neither. But I want to be able to choose to be.
Your Hermit accreditation has been revoked.
What if the other people weren’t american?
If they’re not American then I’ll give them a chance.
But I still want to live where no one can see me doing yard work in the nude
That is a valid dream to pursue. Best of luck!
tl;dr yes there are parking garages nearby, at least in my city
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winter markets?
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Yeah, I was gonna say “my social anxiety mind cannot comprehend this”. Just looking at it is making me physically uncomfortable.
I was gonna say, looks like Philly lol
Or Chicago’s Christkindlemarket
Awesome.
