This woman took the bus for a one mile hike while she was in college? Like, in her twenties she looked at the prospect of walking for just over a kilometer and a half, a distance you can apparently cover by bike faster than by bus, and she went “nah, I need mechanical help for that”.
Man, I still regret not getting in on it in the begining when you could mine with consumer hardware you weren’t using. Back when it was almost entirely hypothetical and nowhere accepted them for anything. People treating them like play money and “tipping” posts on reddit.
So they casually tipped with something worth a mill. Funny thing, I did get into minning, and earned 0.000003 Bitcoins before thinking it’s stupid af, would cost more in bills, and quit
How heavy are you talking about? Pretty sure that, here in Denmark at least, there are rules to giving a back-breaking amount of books and homework to carry.
I went to college in Breda (HIO at Hogeschool Breda, later known as Avans Hogeschool).
If I were to take the bus from the train station to the school building, I’d have been late to class too often.
I walked to class, those 2km from the station to the school at the Lovendijkstraat. Only when it rained did I take the bus and accepted the fact I’d be marked tardy.
I think you’re misunderstanding the idea here: I have a bus pass, but will often walk rather than wait for a bus if the distance is rather short. However, if I’m about to walk somewhere, and see a bus pull up that’s headed where I’m going, I’ll often just hop on-hop off to get where I’m going faster.
Yeah, that’s exactly what I mean. If I pass a busstop and I see that the bus will be there in a few seconds, I’ll take the bus. I roughly know the busschedules around where I work (there’s no bus where I live), so I usually know if a bus is coming by looking at the clock.
Fwiw as far as the reasonableness of taking a bus 1 mile, that’s 16 minutes at a brisk walk. Less at a very fast walk. Depending on traffic, number of stops, etc., a bus could take about 10 minutes to go the same distance, probably less. So you’re definitely saving time, even if it’s not a huge amount. You’re also saving effort and sweat, depending on how fast you go and the weather.
When I was in uni, I would regularly walk the 1.2 km to campus. But I would catch a bus the 1.8 km (remembering that a mile is 1.6) to the shops. Because it’s a hot unshaded route with a significant uphill. Plus I had to carry the shopping. Whereas the walk to uni was flat, shady, and I rarely had to carry more than just a laptop. And also there literally wasn’t a bus that could take me.
So yeah, depending on how all the specifics fit together, I don’t see anything wrong with taking a bus 1.6 km.
It could be cold, windy, or really hot out. Or she doesn’t want to walk a mile with all her school stuff, or she doesn’t have great mobility. Also there are plenty of 30+ people going to college
It could also just be made up, maybe stop looking to get outraged
American infrastructure is so heavily skewed against pedestrians in pretty much every city that isn’t NYC. While large college campuses tend to be more pedestrian friendly, it still isn’t great. And since most Americans aren’t walking a mile everyday, when you then couple that with a backpack with materials needed for two different college classes like textbooks, laptop and charger, or notebooks and pens, it can be difficult for some ti walk that distance for whatever reason.
I don’t know why people are still surprised that the country designed to punish people who are too poor to afford a car has so little pedestrian and cycling.
Lots of universities have free busses that you can just walk on, no pass or anything needed that loop around campus. They’re so frequent and convenient that using them is often just the routine, even if it’s not literally faster. It’s easy to get into the habit of waiting for the bus on cold days, and you keep it in the summer.
I beat it consistently on my 10 mile commute. In fact, on a crappy weather day (lots of snow), I barely missed the bus, so I caught up and rode it the rest of the way.
Buses aren’t fast, but they are warm and dry. It takes ~20 min to get from the stop near my house and the transfer I’d take to work, which was ~6 miles (~10 km). That’s ~18mph (~30km/h), which is doable on a bike. My whole commute took about 40min, 30 on a good wind day. Taking the bus with a transfer took about 45 min.
Wait, we’re discussing the wrong thing entirely.
This woman took the bus for a one mile hike while she was in college? Like, in her twenties she looked at the prospect of walking for just over a kilometer and a half, a distance you can apparently cover by bike faster than by bus, and she went “nah, I need mechanical help for that”.
This happened in the US, didn’t it?
To be clear, this did not happen at all
Oh, you go around telling kids about the tooth fairy, too? Get in the spirit.
How about you get in the spirit of doing your chemistry homework instead of posting on lemmy
Oh, man, the last time I had some of that was in 1997. I’d trade you posting on Lemmy for another go at that.
In 1997. Screw being a teenager in the 21st century.
Oh man, would I love to take back my MLL knowledge and build an AI to farm bitcoins for me.
Man, I still regret not getting in on it in the begining when you could mine with consumer hardware you weren’t using. Back when it was almost entirely hypothetical and nowhere accepted them for anything. People treating them like play money and “tipping” posts on reddit.
So they casually tipped with something worth a mill. Funny thing, I did get into minning, and earned 0.000003 Bitcoins before thinking it’s stupid af, would cost more in bills, and quit
Screw existing in the 21st century
And also somehow anon was a gay man.
It could have. Greentext doesn’t have to be fake either
Right in theory that could possibly happen
But it’s 4chan Greentexts let’s be honest hahaha
Lemmy: Cars are a plague and shouldn’t exist, communities need functional public transit
Also Lemmy: Someone used public transit when they could have walked? Pathetic.
Both can be true. I love public transport, but I wouldn’t take the bus for 1.5 km. I’d walk or, at most, take my bike.
Yes, also if it’s a little rainy outside.
You’re expecting Americans to rawdog their life?
What if you’re carrying a heavy backpack and the bus stop is right next to your class?
Don’t even bother, gatekeepers gonna gatekeep
What does gatekeeping even mean at this point lmao
How heavy are you talking about? Pretty sure that, here in Denmark at least, there are rules to giving a back-breaking amount of books and homework to carry.
If it’s not back-break… walk.
Idk, a laptop, lunch, and 2-3 textbooks?
In the Netherlands, students get free public transport. If there’s a bus coming that you can use for free, why not?
For 1~2 km? No.
I went to college in Breda (HIO at Hogeschool Breda, later known as Avans Hogeschool).
If I were to take the bus from the train station to the school building, I’d have been late to class too often.
I walked to class, those 2km from the station to the school at the Lovendijkstraat. Only when it rained did I take the bus and accepted the fact I’d be marked tardy.
I think you’re misunderstanding the idea here: I have a bus pass, but will often walk rather than wait for a bus if the distance is rather short. However, if I’m about to walk somewhere, and see a bus pull up that’s headed where I’m going, I’ll often just hop on-hop off to get where I’m going faster.
Yeah, that’s exactly what I mean. If I pass a busstop and I see that the bus will be there in a few seconds, I’ll take the bus. I roughly know the busschedules around where I work (there’s no bus where I live), so I usually know if a bus is coming by looking at the clock.
Even 2km in the rain ain’t that bad. It is also less hassle to walk than get an OV fiets for those 2km.
I didn’t know about OV fietsen when I went to college (1999~2005) 😄
But it depends on the type of rain. Torrential rain is horrible, but thankfully pretty rare.
Fwiw as far as the reasonableness of taking a bus 1 mile, that’s 16 minutes at a brisk walk. Less at a very fast walk. Depending on traffic, number of stops, etc., a bus could take about 10 minutes to go the same distance, probably less. So you’re definitely saving time, even if it’s not a huge amount. You’re also saving effort and sweat, depending on how fast you go and the weather.
When I was in uni, I would regularly walk the 1.2 km to campus. But I would catch a bus the 1.8 km (remembering that a mile is 1.6) to the shops. Because it’s a hot unshaded route with a significant uphill. Plus I had to carry the shopping. Whereas the walk to uni was flat, shady, and I rarely had to carry more than just a laptop. And also there literally wasn’t a bus that could take me.
So yeah, depending on how all the specifics fit together, I don’t see anything wrong with taking a bus 1.6 km.
It could be cold, windy, or really hot out. Or she doesn’t want to walk a mile with all her school stuff, or she doesn’t have great mobility. Also there are plenty of 30+ people going to college
It could also just be made up, maybe stop looking to get outraged
American infrastructure is so heavily skewed against pedestrians in pretty much every city that isn’t NYC. While large college campuses tend to be more pedestrian friendly, it still isn’t great. And since most Americans aren’t walking a mile everyday, when you then couple that with a backpack with materials needed for two different college classes like textbooks, laptop and charger, or notebooks and pens, it can be difficult for some ti walk that distance for whatever reason.
I don’t know why people are still surprised that the country designed to punish people who are too poor to afford a car has so little pedestrian and cycling.
Yeah DAE amerikkka bad!?
It is bad yeah
A bus that’s convenient in the US? What are you smoking?
Fair point.
Lots of universities have free busses that you can just walk on, no pass or anything needed that loop around campus. They’re so frequent and convenient that using them is often just the routine, even if it’s not literally faster. It’s easy to get into the habit of waiting for the bus on cold days, and you keep it in the summer.
This thread is giving me tons of excuses to take the bus for a ten minute walk and not a lot of spirited strutting.
I’ll check my chauvinism, though, from the dialectalism alone, there’s clearly plenty of lazy young people to go around worldwide.
I honestly don’t know what point you meant to make but with the tone, all I personally took from this was “get off my lawn, you damn foreign brats”
My Pepsi Co connective tissues are mostly plastic. It’s not a durable plastic :(
I could regularly beat city buses on 3-5 mile rides in the city. They have to stop all over the place and the routes between places are never direct.
But this greentext is probably made up anyway.
I beat it consistently on my 10 mile commute. In fact, on a crappy weather day (lots of snow), I barely missed the bus, so I caught up and rode it the rest of the way.
Buses aren’t fast, but they are warm and dry. It takes ~20 min to get from the stop near my house and the transfer I’d take to work, which was ~6 miles (~10 km). That’s ~18mph (~30km/h), which is doable on a bike. My whole commute took about 40min, 30 on a good wind day. Taking the bus with a transfer took about 45 min.
Aside from most greentexts being fabricated stories, how long do you think they have between classes to get moved around on campus?
Sounds like public transportation
I’m sure the physically disabled students at that college appreciate you letting them know that you think one mile is too short for a bus ride
i also lived a mile from my uni and took the bus sometimes, in my defence, the uni was on a steep ass hill and i lived at the bottom of it