Cool story, bro.

[nathrakh]

[gut]

>>Why no cars?

>Ha, I actually lolled

At me, or with me?

I'm honestly confused why one would prefer to
pay outragious bus tickets as opposed to just
buying a car. Is riding a bus or train preferable
for some reason that escapes me?


also:

[Orbic]

Gut's version reworked... sorry!

[vogonpoet]

>>Why no cars?

It was just such a perfect response from a dude in Kentucky, what with the different attitudes to transportation in Europe and the US. If I lived and studied/worked in the same city, and spent most of my time in that city, your proposed potentially simple solution would just never have occurred to me, despite the fact that I do live and work in the same city, both my wife and I walk to work, the supermarket is a 3 minutes stroll away, and yet for some reason (it was a gift), we actually have a car, which every 6 months or so we have to start with jump leads due it never getting used, and which we have been considering selling for ages - maybe nathrakh could take it off our hands
Ouch, roll on sentence FTL
Anway, buses and trains are awesome - you can read the paper, have breakfast, and catch up on some sleep, whilst traveling someplace, without putting fellow travelers and yourself at risk.

/Sepultura seems like an interesting name for a bus ticket.

[gut]

Where I live, we have no passenger trains, we run
no busses (except the school ones of course), there
are no taxi services, and the closest car rental agency
is 80 miles away. You HAVE to have a car, or at least
access to one via family member or friend. Closest
grocery store is ~15 miles away.

Sleeping on busses is impossible, as I tried numerous
times when in school. Maybe breakfast, if breakfast
= poptart. Trains, on the other hand... wouldn't they
be x10 noisier and less comfortable than busses???

[vogonpoet]

Well you can always ask those uncouth guys at the front to shovel the coal less noisily

As for more modern trains...

chacka-ta-kung, chacka-ta-kung, chacka-ta-kung....

thats all your hear dude, just the quiet rhythmic sound of the wheels on the tracks, lulling you to sleep.

/and then the child behind you kicks your seat, and somewhere else a baby starts crying, and a [DEL]bunch of young neds[/DEL] sadly misunderstood youths come into your carriage drinking cans of white lightning and arguing about who slept with whose girlfriend first, or vomiting into their pizzas.
//Its still a lot more relaxing than driving on the insanely busy bumper-to-bumper motorways and basically dicing with death every day.

[yisk]

I do not like any transport. The smell of gasoline and cigarette smoke. There is always unbearably hot or very cold - the average temperature does not happen. A major railway stations are filled with various scams.
Cars? Not with our fuel prices...

[gut]

> busy bumper-to-bumper motorways

City folk. When will you all learn that 2-lane highways
are the best kind. I drive half way to work most days
without seeing another vehicle. The other half of the
drive is 4-lane, and I'll see 20 to 40 vehicles on an
average day. That's during the day... driving at night,
one can almost hear the crickets chirping.

[vogonpoet]

I can haz commute?


/hotlink

[gut]

Not in a million years would I deal with that.
I would sooner sleep at work.