@violetmadder @ColeSloth @ajsadauskas
Point being, even in the Northeast, the “best” place for transit, it’s mostly been a story of abandonment for cars and interstates. We went from hopping on the Chattanooga Choo Choo to counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike.
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@violetmadder @ColeSloth @ajsadauskas
Later on I lived in Northwest NJ in a small borough of maybe 1400 people. But its history was a railroad junction, where trains would bring coal in from PA bound for New York. By the time I lived there, the railroad was disconnected from the NJ Transit network, and the nearest train station during commuting times was about 5 miles away. On weekends, the line only went to a station 20 miles away, with service maybe every hour.
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@violetmadder @ColeSloth @ajsadauskas
American here, from the Northeast, so theoretically one of the best served areas by rail in the country. And even over my lifetime it has been unsatisfactory. I went to Uni up outside of Albany NY, when my family lived in South Jersey. To get home for holidays I had to take a bus from Albany to Philadelphia, changing in NYC because the Metro North trains didn’t go that far north.
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@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars I live in Philadelphia, so all those are within a 15 minute walk from me except the university, mall, movie theater, and sports arena. But these are all accessible by transit, whether bus or subway.
On the short distance, the nearest bar to me is 40 ft (12m) away!
@virtualbri @ajsadauskas @technology Every disruption is an existing thing we figured out how to extract rents from
@ajsadauskas @asklemmy (Trying to remember my own GeoCities site from back then), Many had a “best viewed on Netscape” icon
I think mine had mostly my own song lyrics, with a different background for each page, with a menu page and forward/back links on each lyrics page.
Were frames 90s? Friend of mine used frames to make his site look like a console from Star Trek TNG