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What's wrong with Vietnam? We

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 07:00:58 +0000

In reply to I know, I know, we don't have

What's wrong with Vietnam? We got a lot of war movies out of it, even made a hometown kid famous. Do we get to win this time?

I know, I know, we don't have

artappraiser — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 06:13:28 +0000

In reply to aw geez, c'mon, not even just

I know, I know, we don't have a honest person to spare back here in third world NYC. And you send one guy and he wants to take along his buddy and next thing you know, you've got: Vietnam! But still.

aw geez, c'mon, not even just

artappraiser — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 06:04:48 +0000

In reply to NO NEOLIBERALS WRECKING

aw geez, c'mon, not even just a tiny smidgen of interventionism, like say, a single Peace Corps engineer?

NO NEOLIBERALS WRECKING

NCD — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 03:11:08 +0000

In reply to Yup. Because they're just

NO NEOLIBERALS WRECKING PROGRESS IN MUMBAI....!!!! HIGH FIVES....!!!!

Yup. Because they're just

artappraiser — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 01:50:34 +0000

In reply to Hahaha...Very true.

Yup. Because they're just trying to get contracts. Best to not say anything too positive or negative, the idea is show off ex-per-tease. Look: we can spreadsheet with the best of ya!

I am not a spreadsheet person, I a picture and word person.

I saw Mumbai made it to #75 even though their Local leaves much to be desired:

Here's who's below them, in reverse order because that's how it pasted, # 100 to #76:

Undisclosed Undisclosed Undisclosed Undisclosed Hanoi Kuala Lumpur Cairo Undisclosed Bangkok Undisclosed Lima Jakarta Indianapolis Perth Houston Tampa Johannesburg Undisclosed Kolkata Detroit Denver Dallas Atlanta Pittsburgh Buenos Aires

The presence of Denver, Tampa, Atlanta, Dallas, Indianapolis and Pittsburgh below Mumbai tells me: you get a lot of points for having any kind of train at all, no matter how often it runs over people.

Edit to add: I get why # 97 thru 100 are "Undisclosed", but what might be the reason for the "Undisclosed" between? Something like: they are client...they are blackmailing them to become a client...they are being sued by them...

Everyone loves train vacation

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 01:45:00 +0000

In reply to Yup. Because they're just

Everyone loves train vacation pics.

So you can start an

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 01:36:21 +0000

In reply to Um great minds think alike,

So you can start an alternative to Uber for Manhattan/NYC - SteamTrunk for SteamPunks. Just a safe place near the street for stuff you don't want to lug up, not that you'd want to drive or anything silly. I had the same thing for my bikes - just a spot at ground level not to lug up 4 flights. And people used to tell me to take the baby seats out so no one'd steal them, if you can believe it. Like, get real. And maybe that's the killer app for drones as well - not pizza delivery or cheap shit from Amazon, but simply all your crap lofted from ground to 4th or 8th floor window. Ain't fun when the kid's asleep and you're unpacking and climbing...

Hahaha...Very true.

NCD — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 00:48:19 +0000

In reply to Um great minds think alike,

Hahaha...Very true.

I almost expired once in the LIRR on a cool spring day from the heat, windows would not open. If the doors didn't occasionally open at stops neophytes like me would have become "fatality statistics", a 15% contribution to the survey's City People Rating, just below the top value Percent Who Use System.

The Arcadis thing was all about numbers, no surveys or questioning the public on satisfaction, why they use public transit, or don't use it.

Um great minds think alike,

artappraiser — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 00:17:40 +0000

In reply to If you actually read the

Um great minds think alike, on my way back from my physical therapy appt. right in the middle of the Bronx, driving, I was thinking of making absolutely this same point on this thread. From a different direction, but coming at that report just the same.

What they have in that report is the arrogant urban yuppie dream of quality of life. Like the Brooklyn hipsters I saw Friday night at a "DiscoPunkElectronica 2000" retro party. A young couple living in a high rise, down the elevator, take the bike to the subway, zip to work in Manhattan, their dinner meanwhile delivered by Blue Apron to the doorman along with the pantyhose from Amazon prime. When they need to get out of town they rent a Zip Car from the garage down the block

What do my Coptic Egyptian immigrant physical therapists in the Bronx dream of as quality of life. Well they hope someday not to have to schelp up 2 flights of elevated train steps with the baby and the stroller and the two year old spilling the cup of cheerios and down the steps to pick up the dry cleaning, hook it on the stroller, up the steps, down the steps again, drag it all on to the bus, 20 more minutes to go 13 blocks, get off, stop at the Deli for milk and diapers, pay a fortune for the small sizes, but it also would have cost a fortune to rent a car to go to the supermarket once a week. What they would like someday for quality of life: a car and a driveway to park it in! And a little attached house with a little yard, maybe with a basement they could rent now and the kids could use when they get older. So they don't have to be on the bus and subway all the time, and have a place to put the diaper bag so that they don't have to carry it all the time, can shop at a big discount grocery store and get gallons of milk and big boxes of diapers and then drive right up to their house and unload the kids and groceries and dry cleaning right there at your door! The stroller? Oh now that's just for walks in the park, you keep it in the trunk. That's what they need, all they really want, a little house and a car and a place to park it, for quality of life. Like lots of their family have in New Jersey now, having escaped life in the "dense" (and dirty, filthy, exhausting, crowed) urban location.

If you actually read the

NCD — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 21:37:58 +0000

In reply to Not sure if that was a joke,

If you actually read the Arcadis paper it's people metric has no input related to satisfaction of users with the public transportation system. Or whether the system is perceived to be improving or deteriorating.

It just measures whether people making trips or commutes use it. That there may be no practical options to using a crappy system is not looked at.

As long as you don't die (fatality metric) on a hot LIRR train, your delays, discomfort or discontent are not taken into account.