lol, welcome to europe
- Started 14 years ago
- Last post 14 years ago
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- hilchev0
oil and gas companies such as the company "US Military"
- ********0
The problem is that every American lives in the suburbs 20 miles away from their job and 5 miles from the nearest store with no public transport...at least that's the world I grew up in:)
- Get 'work' to put on subsidised buses, like yellow school buses. If they want to keep their
workforces they'll have to.mikotondria3 - You nailed it... the question is they acctually did not want/need a "workforce"OBBTKN
- Get 'work' to put on subsidised buses, like yellow school buses. If they want to keep their
- akrok0
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yeah, depends so much there you are and where you have to go.
some routes works, others do not.right now, if i take the busses. it will take me 2 hours (or more) to work. and that's only two busses and one is express. lol.
- that's one way.akrok
- We've got to totally rethink where we live and work. No choice. Move, starve or work at home.mikotondria3
- i really don't like the area where the work is. it's nicer but there also much more homeless and psychos.akrok
- and it cost more. great.akrok
- due to this, no freaking apartment are for rent per month. they all have 1 year lease. fu...that!akrok
- i am used to take the buss, 30 mins, subway 15 mins. smack down in the middle of downtown stockholm.akrok
- CanHasQBN0
For the past 70 years, oil and auto companies have influenced city planners into creating environments that are made to be impossible for pedestrians to navigate. These environments have been catering solely to cars ever since we bought into the "American Dream" product. Most of the cities in America were built the way they are to maximize miles driven and oil profits. They aren't built for people, they're built for cars. It's pathetic and shameful.
Next time you're driving around in your car, take a look at how many half-walls surround the perimeter of any given stripmall. Those 5ft walls are there for a reason. The only place to enter is where the cars enter. It's just one of the many consciously-made planning codes created to deter travel by foot.
Even the bushes you see, the ones that you might believe to be beautifying the landscape, were consciously planted to deter pedestrian travel.
- ...and the location of that Google Maps link is exactly a mile away from the largest university in the USA...CanHasQBN
- ...not in the middle of nowhere... although, it may feel like it.CanHasQBN
- spot on.akrok
- l.a. would had a mono-rail a shit long time ago but the tier companies got mad and payed off the politicians. so it never happen.akrok
- happen.akrok
- I used to live about 2 miles from here. I used to walk around Phx all the time. It's not recommended.mikotondria3
- YUCCA TAP ROOM RIGHT THERE.studderine
- georgesIII0
My daily routine
get up,
Jump on bike > 10 min cardio ride to the train station,
40 min train commute > 25 min subway ride > 5 min walk to work,After work same deal reversed,
Been doing that for 4 years now here and most of my life,
dont have a driving licenseNow what pisses me off is the green crowd who lecture me on "carbon offset".. while doing absolutly nothing to be energy efficient
I know subilurbs .... i know works far.... i know shitty transportation system but you're the only ones capable of making a change,
Don't wait on corporations to do it for you
- eating_tv0
^ I just got my license last year. Although growing up in a country where the bicycle culture is as strong as it is I hardly ever turn to it. Only peculiar instances for instance when you need to pick up someone who's disabled or you need to haul some stuff you can't carry in a backpack or bicycle bags.
Now that I work at home, though. The cardio's a bit less. Still, I love riding. All hail bicycles!
- ********0
tomorrow:
€1,62 per liter
- raf0
Most mart of the price of fuel in Europe is tax. German cars, made in EU cost more (some models twice more) here than they're being sold for in the US.
You didn't think that Euro healthcare thing was really for free, did you?
- true********
- I also came to this conclusion when I recently checked the price of a Prius in USA and Belgium. NUTS********
- It's subsidised in the US, not the other way roundmikotondria3
- true
- ********0
Well I had first hand experience of public transport last month, and it was shit, to expensive, and took bloody hours to get anywhere. Example. To get into my local town which is 4 mile away I got charged £3.80 for a return ticket, and the bus took almost 1 hour to travel 4 miles. In the car it took me ten minutes.
- Bike?
4 miles is pretty neargeorgesIII - 4 milles 10 minutes? I do 20 kms in 15 minutes... An like Georges said, for this distance bike is a perfect solutionOBBTKN
- Bike?
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- bjladams0
wife and i got a vw beetle quite a few years back as a second car for around town. it's a diesel. get's about 50 mpg on the hwy- we paid 8k for it back in 05 and have had offers double that recently. we fill it up about once every 6 weeks or so and drive it everywhere. although i get a lot of glances from other dudes in their trucks... well, i've learned to build up my man-wall and block it out...
- BattleAxe0
by Fall they will be back down to $2.75 , I just got back from there
- ETM0
Still way cheaper than printer ink. It's cheaper to leave my car running in the garage than to print out this thread. :D
- ETM0
- raf0
- raf0
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lol
- lowimpakt0
who pays for the human health & environmental damage caused by oil/petrol?
- ********0
DIdn't you hear...there's no damage. It's all a conspiracy to get us to drive dorky electric cars while Al Gore rakes in the big bucks