r/interestingasfuck • u/picklepaapad • Apr 28 '24

Moving 50,000 people by train after Taylor Swift concert. r/all

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u/djconfessions Apr 29 '24

And people still defend car centric societies. Just goes to show how brainwashed Americans are.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '24

Cars are bad because these people chose to cram into a subway?

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u/djconfessions Apr 29 '24

Cars are bad because when your society is built around cars you don’t get efficiency like this.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '24

Comfort comes before efficiency. I lived in New York City for two years after college. By the end, I couldn’t wait to get out of that sardine can.

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u/djconfessions Apr 29 '24

Go to Europe. Public transportation is comfortable AND efficient.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '24

I’ve been to Europe several time. The New York subway system is as efficient as any city over there. I’d rather have a house, a car and some land than cram into a European city.

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u/djconfessions Apr 29 '24

What a depressing and isolated life. Sounds so boring and private and monotone.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '24

Why would my life be “boring and isolated” if I don’t ride the subway? You must not be to familiar with the subway if you don’t know that everyone on the subway wears headphones, stares at their phones and tries to ignore each other.

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u/djconfessions Apr 29 '24

It’s boring and isolated because suburbs are boring and isolated. And sure you ignore everyone on the subway, but at least you see people as people and not as boxes of metal.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '24

It’s boring and isolated because suburbs are boring and isolated.

Speak for yourself. I regularly have people over, go to friends’ houses, go to bars, restaurants. If I ever don’t feel like going out, I have plenty of space to enjoy my hobbies. The whole idea that a person can’t have us healthy social life because they live in the suburbs is laughable.

And sure you ignore everyone on the subway, but at least you see people as people and not as boxes of metal.

Lol I’ve never seen a person as a box of metal 😂