[ SECRET POST #4148 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4148 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Will and Grace season 9]


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03.
[Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Elizabeth Olsen]


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[Stranger Things, Billy/Mrs. Wheeler]


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(Grimm)


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[Antoni Porowski, Queer Eye 2018]


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07.
[The Crown]









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Comments

Re: Public transportation in your hometown

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who has lived on the East Coast my entire life, I'm genuinely baffled by just how BAD the West Coast is when it comes to public transportation. I've lived in DC and Philadelphia and spent good chunks of time in Baltimore, Boston, and NYC, and all of those cities have public transportation systems that are perfectly viable for getting around without needing a car. But then I hear my friends from CA talk about how bad/non-existent public transportation is there and I'm just like... what did you guys do wrong out there? Why is there such a vast difference between the two coasts? I'm genuinely curious.

Re: Public transportation in your hometown

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT

There are places on the West Coast with workable public transit - even in the Bay Area, San Jose/the South Bay are notably worse than other parts of the region in terms of public transit options. And there's some other cities where the transit options are acceptable - off the top of my head, I believe that Portland's public transportation is pretty decent.

In terms of why there's a difference - a lot of it just comes down to the way that the cities were built and planned. Most of the East Coast cities that you mentioned have extremely dense urban cores with relatively dense construction around them, because they were built when cars weren't an everyday thing, and so the design and growth of those cities mostly didn't assume that everyone would have a car. And more generally, there wasn't as much open space.

In contrast, huge parts of the West were built after cars had come along, and designed under the assumption that people would drive. And there's a lot more space in general. So a lot of cities in the West were built on a far less centralized plan, with much more sprawling growth and street planning and stuff. And so the way that the cities are designed makes it wayyyyyy harder to implement a successful public transit system.

Some of it is probably cultural and stuff on top of that, but I honestly think that's a large part of it.

Re: Public transportation in your hometown

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT—also a lot of cities on the west coast that had existing public transit through the 40s and into the 50s had those transit systems bought up by automotive companies and dismantled so that people would have to buy cars.