No fair, Becks! If we're all anonymous you have to be, too.
Doesn't show assured clear distances, which make the bus even more compact.
Do you understand what's going on with the crowd of people in each picture? I ask because the number in the bunch seems to vary by picture.
1: we already tried that and it doesn't work
I walk, like a Christian.*
* Patrick O'Brian allusion. Please refrain from sectarian bickering. I enjoy the anticlerical pornography of Aretino as much as the next pseudonym.
I have seen city buses in Germany with a sign on the back saying "Please be patient, I am replacing 60 cars in front of you".
Muenster is quite possibly the best city for bicycles on the planet. It's flat, compact, and has a more comprehensive bike path network than even Dutch cities. You have to really watch out as a pedestrian, though, because bicylists ride with appoximately the same self-confidence and barely contained aggression as SUV drivers in Plano, TX.
Same number of people; photo taken from differing distances.
I think it overstates matters, because it assumes that the bus is full, which they aren't consistently.
Another great German transportation-related PSA: This one is found on billboards on the Autobahn and says, roughly, "speeders are sooo sexy: are you big enough?".
All those people won't ride on the bus together unless they're wearing deodorant.
4: It does look that way, but I think they're just at different zoom levels. Of course, the "see how much space" point is obscured by this, but that's dramatic enough anyway.
On preview I see that the non-participating baton rouge has beaten me to this, and in response to the point about unfull buses I'd say that they tend to be fuller when traffic is worse, so that doesn't matter that much. Also, without counting heads, I'd bet a city bus at rush hour holds more than 60, when you get people standing in the aisles and molesting each other.
I think it overstates matters, because it assumes that the bus is full, which they aren't consistently
1. That doesn't look like a full bus load; it's probably something close to the average rush-hour load factor
2. The relevant metric is the average peak load (i.e. when the buses are full at rush hour), because that's when traffic congestion is an issue.
Ergo, I don't think it overstates the case at all.
People! New pseuds only on the designated thread. This is chaos!
It is fair for road space. I was irrelevantly thinking about energy use, where the bus's non-rush hour load becomes relevant.
13: Wait! Never mind. I misread. Crap.
But... but... the whole idea was to do it not just in the designated thread, no?
Read the designated post, Stanley. We merely obey the Dear Leader's directions.
I think Stanley is going by the pseud "Stanley".
I think my three-letter pseudonymity will be pretty well shot after this one, but here is another of my favorite German PSA campaigns. This one is to encourage cleaner streets in Siegburg. They are all pretty risqué, but the second one especially so.
Ogged is presumably even now looking at: ip addresses.
This overstates the efficiency of bikes which require a larger clearance, relative to their size, than cars.
This anonymity is too fucking much work.
Muenster has one of Europe's best heretical groups ever.
I'm actually not looking at IP addresses, since I don't want to react to people based on what I know about them.
Ogged is: serious about his experimentation.
Good set of images.
It seems to me that even a bus with five people on it takes up less space than five cars. But maybe it has a bigger global-warming footprint.
Muenster has one of Europe's best heretical groups ever.
The Anabaptists? Yeah, it didn't end so well for them, though.
I love that poster! It reminds me of a set of two little "yards" side-by-side, one planted with lovely native, low-maintenance plants and full of butterflies, the other with very proper (i.e., fertilizer, tons of watering) mowed green grass & a few flowers. That one looked incredibly sterile.
Also, process note: Posts above ogged's should probably refer to today's anonymity rule, as some of us don't read all the posts in order before we start gabbing.
In a certain sense, then, those of us who ride the bus are morally superior to those insufferable bike fundamentalists -- were everyone on the bus to be biking, that would cause far more congestion, resulting in more carbon emissions.
In a certain sense, then, those of us who ride the bus are morally superior to those insufferable bike fundamentalists
As a bus commuter, I would like to take a moment to savour my moral superiority to soup biscuit, spaz, sifu tweety, and all the rest of those bike freaks. Stop poisoning the planet, you hippies!
Do the subway commuters get to stand in the middle of a perfectly empty street looking smug?
Like a Christian, apparently, although I'm not one.
This anonymity is too fucking much work.
Well worth the effort, though. Nobody has any idea who "Mac" might be.
I tried it a couple times, but for some reason, the comment box always reverts to my normal Kotsko pseudonym.
This ignores the temporal dimension. That long lane of cars following a single bicycle uphill on the street I take home are going 10 when they would otherwise be going 45.
