Public Transportation

[Speaker to Animals]

High T solution is to not be afraid of a bug.

I'll print that post out for handy reference when you come over to the lake for a summer fishing trip. I'll let you read it out loud after about 3 hours of being on the mosquito buffet; and you are looking like Yeager caught you with a couple of loads of birdshot at about 20 yards.

¡Ay dios mio, amigos! These pendejo mosquitoes are too much. Back to the boats!

[Fife]

Smoke, hombre, smoke.

I don't want to pick up Marlboros again, but shit, those pendejo bastards are a real pain in the ass.

However, I have to agree that they are just amateurs compared to those freaking noseeums we run across down around St. George and Appalachicola coming in from a day of getting fat gags and snapper. Those little sumbitches come up from Satan himself.

[K@th]

Noseeums or red ants? Red ants are a BITCH. Had my foot covered in them, approximately 10 days after I moved to Florida. Fuck. That.

[Speaker to Animals]

Florida fire ants are pretty horrible if you get bitten, but easy to avoid.

Noseums are called that for a reason. You don't even realize they are on you until the bite, and then it's too late.

[brewster]

Most of the nastiness you all are ascribed to public transport is a symptom of it being transport of last resort in most places, rather than the ordinary way to get around, like it is in the NYC metro area. When you invest public funds heavily in roads and sprawl rather than dense neighborhoods with good transit: sure, that's what you get. Complaining that transit doesn't work well in sprawling suburbs and exurbs without a dense city center is just stupid, there's no reason it should. But it works great for the people in the NY and Bay areas.

Has anybody here read or listened to the podcasts of Strongtowns.org? It's founded by a civil engineer whose career was doing roadway design, until he had an epiphany that we're doing it all wrong, and small cities will never recover what they spend on sprawl development in search of growing their tax base. He has a lot to say about why the small towns and cities many of you are fond of are so fucked up economically.

[DBTrek]

Smoke, hombre, smoke.

I don't want to pick up Marlboros again, but shit, those pendejo bastards are a real pain in the ass.

However, I have to agree that they are just amateurs compared to those freaking noseeums we run across down around St. George and Appalachicola coming in from a day of getting fat gags and snapper. Those little sumbitches come up from Satan himself.

Cigars. They burn longer, make more smoke, no inhaling.

Started getting into cigars last week. Had to counter-balance all the healthy stuff I do.

[Speaker to Animals]

NYC has some of the worst subways in the fucking world. Mexico City is lightyears ahead of you people in terms of public works.

[brewster]

NYC has some of the worst subways in the fucking world. Mexico City is lightyears ahead of you people in terms of public works.

That's what happens when you come first, are 120 years old, and starved for funds because no politician ever runs on a platform of "I maintained the infrastructure!!" But it works, moving 5.5m people a day. Look at the DC Metro, same thing, a marvel when it opened and they've run it into the ground with deferred maintenance. Now, we do the same thing with roads to be sure, but people take that less personally till the bridge collapses under them.

[Speaker to Animals]

Mexico city is a bit older than NYC.

[Montegriffo]

Public transport on the continent is fantastic. Clean, cheap and on time. Of course they are heavily subsidised by govt and often publicly owned so no good 'cos socialism.