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Sometimes it feels like folks in US would build anything but efficient transit 🤦 (slrpnk.net)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (3 children)

The problem it can't solve is that rich people might have to interact with mere humans. The car in a tube seats four and locks, so there's zero chance you'll have to sit next to a minority.

I wonder if rail would be more appealing to them if the coaches were designed as multiple isolated cells that seated 4-6, rather than straight-through corridors that permit mingling. (I've seen some old designs like that, in German narrow-gauge form)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The problem it can’t solve is that rich people might have to interact with mere humans.

I can relate. We, in Indonesia, have a problem where politicians, whose never even ride a train before, gets to decide the policies about public transport, and those who gets the consequenece is low-middle class who uses public transport. There was a meme from a year ago where a tone-deaf politician says the overcrowded trains in Jakarta doesn't exist even though it overcrowding is clearly a problem in regional line (KRL) due to lack of trains.

I wonder if rail would be more appealing to them if the coaches were designed as multiple isolated cells that seated 4-6, rather than straight-through corridors that permit mingling.

Assuming we're talking about short distance trains, absolutely no, lol. It's just space inefficient. I will understand if it is a long distance trains, and it is a thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Short-distance city trains used to have multiple compartments too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_Door_(train) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris_(train)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Things like the "C-Trains" in Calgary, despite being intended for mass transit (and ridden mainly by the poors) are also multi-compartment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I assumed the parent commenter meant this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartment_coach

But if the commenter meant cross-seat trains like this:

cross seat train from Japan

then yeah it exists

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Yes.... it's the first one? Did you not look at the links I shared?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

You think public transit would be better if there were more obstructed sight-lines? Hunh. Are you also volunteering for mop duty if that's not actually how things turn out?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

i continue to weep for the death of Per Albin Hansson, the old social democrat leader who was so steadfast in riding the tram home to his apartment that he's known for his death happening immediately after stepping off the tram (heart attack) when he could have chosen to be driven home by another politician.