Yeah, that matches my experience on public transport alright.
Crammed in so tight you can’t even bend a knee, and god help you if you’re travelling with luggage or groceries…
That’s not really a car issue, that’s a “no-one invests in public transport” issue.
Also too many public transport is being treated like a business, where you optimally want to cut expense therefore always reduce frequency until the vehicle is crammed to full capacity.
Comic misses a parked car
“I can beat them all to the next red light.”
Oh man.
I remember when I think it was Houston started using timed lights, the idiots said that a light timed for 30 MPH was also timed for 60 and 90 MPH. It’s hard to comprehend such stupidity and bad math.
Houston is the only place where I’ve ever been passed on the right … while I was in the right lane.
Were they just driving on peoples lawns or something?
This was on the interstate, they were driving on the shoulder. I was going with traffic at about 95 mph and they (like ten cars in a row) passed me on the shoulder going easily 15-20 mph faster than me. Extra crazy because the shoulders in Houston are loaded with all kinds of shit and debris.
I want to believe that Houston allows shoulder driving during certain hours. I believe you. But I don’t actually want to believe that many people did that.
On a part of 405 in Seattle we have a “shoulder” that opens for traffic during rush hour simply for the fact that people would use it anyway to get to the exit ahead. So they just made it allowed.
I want believe that’s what happened. But probably not.
I think in my case it was people jumping onto the shoulder to get to the exit up ahead. But “up ahead” was like two miles here.
That’s what it sounded like. A similar situation to what happens on the 405 here.
But absolutely insane people do it when traffic is actually moving. I understand the “my exit is 300 ft away and we’re all stuck”. Understand it, but would still not be that guy.
Absolutely mind boggling people do this when traffic is moving.
That happened to me in SF/Mountain View. I was down there for an interview. I’d never visited the region before. It’s like Mad Max on the freeways.
At a red light a woman decided she wasn’t going to wait four cars back. Instead she just pulled over the curb, drove over lawns and headed down the road. No honking, just plowing across property to skip a light. We caught up to her at the next red light.
whilst I agree with the message, no busses are that narrow
There’s some artistic liberties taken but neither are the bike lanes or passenger cars that narrow.
The bike lane doesn’t have a car parked in it, also…
You’re morally obligated to smash mirrors on cars parked on bike lanes
The artistic liberties contradict the point it’s supposed to make.
Cars aren’t that small, and buses aren’t that uncomfortable.
Well, if we use the car to scale - the bike should be 1 seat wide, the bus stop should be 2 seats wide, and the bus itself should be 5 seats wide
Someone with photoshop skills needs to fix this
It’s fine, even in it’s current form it still manages to drive in the point
somewhat disingenuously though - my initial take away was that a car took up as much space as a bus and bike combined, and it was only later that I realised it was talking about more efficient or cleaner ways to transport people
No bus has the little people in it either
There are many cases when a bus can have a really small amount of people, sometimes 1 or 2
Can confirm. After work I’m sometimes the only passenger on the bus.
I think that’s depicting a tram, not a bus.Edit wait no I’m wrong it has wheels it’s a bus, not a tram nvm. Looked like a tram. Exactly because no buses are that narrow. Oh well. Art.
I was on my usual bike ride a couple of years ago. On a particularly wide road, a car passed me and went way over into the other lane to do so, even though he could have kept the required 4’ distance from me without crossing the double yellow line. Because he went so far into the opposite lane, a van coming the opposite way had to slow down a little bit - not even stop, just slow down. As this van passed me, the driver literally stuck his upper body out the window and yelled “you’re gonna get somebody killed!” … at me, not at the driver of the car that passed me.
I just couldn’t believe the insanity of this dude. Like, I didn’t make the fucking car pass me like that, and at most it made him get to the red light two seconds later than he otherwise would have.
This reminds me “nice” cars that do stupid shit because they see a biker. I just want cars to be predictable. I don’t want them to be nice.
I can’t stand the “oh I’ll stop for you when I’m not supposed to at this 2 way stop” cars.
Like, dude. This doesn’t help me. I have to wait and make sure the the car coming up behind you also stops and doesn’t just pass you because you’re being stupid.
And then now there is a car coming the other way and they aren’t stopping (because they don’t actually have a stop sign).
Can you just drive safe and predictable? I literally WANT to wait here until there are NO cars. Not 3-4 cars I now have to hope stop and don’t kill me.
When people do this I literally just get off my bike now to make it obvious I don’t want their “help”. I’ve had too many times where people doing this have put me in danger. I have eyes. I want to wait until it’s clear.
I had someone do that same thing one time when I was riding home from work (most rides I do are fitness/recreational, but I did occasionally commute via bicycle). In that case, it was right into the path of a cop going the other way, who had to brake hard to avoid a crash. Nothing came of it, but I had to laugh at the absurdity of it.
public transit is only that crowded one trip in a hundred in my city. This comic feels anti-bus as much as it feels anti-car.
I believe the author is making a statement about the hypocrisy of the carbrained. The choice to depict busses as crowded is to emphasize that point - but I agree, it’s not painting buses in a flattering way
I see that. That’s why I said it’s anti-bus as much as it is anti-car, rather than saying it’s more anti-bus than anti-car.
that’s saul goodman right
curious how many cities even have enough people to fill one bus from one location to another
Parts of Tokyo, Japan; Parts of Columbus, Ohio, USA; and Houston, TX, USA from direct experience. Also several other much smaller Japanese cities whose names I don’t recall at the moment.
you’re kidding right?
All of them.
dam, so is Fairbanks not a city
Which buses are capable of taking 30k people onboard?
Surely even with a fairly low population like that, it’d be hard to find such a large vehicle that you could say that there isn’t enough people in the city to fill it. Perhaps I’m mistaken. Perhaps American buses seat thousands and thousands of people?
Honestly America has 3 cities, NYC, Chicago, and DC. If you’re so spread out you don’t have effective mass transit, you’re not a city, you’re an overgrown suburb.
But also <100K is def not a city.
Ah, I guess every city does depending on time and location.
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