San Diego is about to increase fares and reduce service. They seem to think they have a captive audience in the poors, the disabled, the old.

I would LOVE a motorcycle, but the reality is that if anything hits you, even a tiny car, you're going to get smeared. Best case scenario, you just destroy one leg if you fall over.

I have literally had dreams about riding a motorcycle, but I just can't balance the risk on that one. If the rider makes a small mistake, dead. If there is a foreign object in the road that you hit and go flying, dead. If a deer pops out in front of you, dead. If some crazy person in a tiny car gets mad at you, dead. If some crazy person in a big truck gets mad at you, dead.

There are so many ways to be dead and so little between you and a lot of big immovable objects. Our little meaty bodies are not meant to sustain the forces that happen in a motorcycle crash. Yeah, you should wear a good helmet and all the riding gear, but at most, it will just serve to contain the meat paste that your body will be transformed into if you get hit hard.

So depressing. It looks like so much fun.

Yet there are so many deaths on motorcycles. This week alone there has been at least one death a day where I live. I used to want to buy a bike. Nope.

I guess you could put it like this:

How do we improve traffic?

Raise gas prices, dramatically.

The article is about the US.

But since you mention him, Orbán was plenty bad, afaik he acted largely within the law. Like the gerrymandering in the US that disenfranchises minority voters. And as I said, Trump acts outside the law in addition to all the fucked up stuff they're doing by the book.

Ukraine did a thing iirc that lead to them being a massive resistance to Russia.

I do two hoursand it's rough. My bus route is a good cannidate for bus lanes and high frequency, though they're not gonna run more than once an hour in the early AM because I'm an edge case