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[El Goonish Shive]

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[Trigun]

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[Ellen Muth, Cara Delevingne, Doutzen Kroes, Denise Richards, Billie Piper]

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[Dodgeball]

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[football rps]

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[Peter is the Wolf; OP requested link for nudity]

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This is stupid and I hope I'm not offending anyone, but do parents in USA really drive their kids everywhere? Why not use a public transport?

Because outside of major cities there really isn't any public transport.

And within major cities, public transport can be really sketchy and parents would rather not have their kids have to ride it. In a lot of the places I've lived, a bus is essentially the bad part of town.
The US's public transport system needs a whole lot of work before it's really a viable alternative to owning a car.

Re: Explain it to me like I'm 5

(Anonymous) - 2013-11-22 18:15 (UTC) - Expand

This. And sometimes it's near impossible to even walk anywhere because of traffic, lack of sidewalks, etc.

Most places don't have trains and buses can take hours.

Exceptions include school buses.

No, school buses take hours. I used to spend two hours on the bus just to get home. I only lived 15 minutes away by car.

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fingalsanteater - 2013-11-22 02:56 (UTC) - Expand

My parents are Malay and they drove me everywhere when I was younger. They didn't trust me to take the bus. It was like that for most other kids I knew too. Besides, here in Malaysia it's kind of random whether or not there's a bus stop where you want to go. I don't think they go very deep in some areas, like mine, even though we're smack-dab in the middle of the city.

Unfortunately public transport doesn't seem to be a priority among the people who allocate funds for this sort of thing so it's very inconsistent. There are places where it works really well and there are other places where there's hardly any way to get around without a car.

I take the bus sometimes but it's a 10 minute drive to the nearest bus stop, so I still need to ask someone a favor, but the bus helps to me ask for a smaller favor than it would otherwise be.

the city I grew up in had no bus system at all

Public transportation in most of the US is either nonexistent or absolute shit.

I read everything you write in Chiana's voice, which makes the most mundane things pretty awesome.

Re: completely off topic

cassandraoftroy - 2013-11-22 04:11 (UTC) - Expand

The buses in my city are full of the sketchiest people on earth and I would sooner leave my daughter in the care of a pit of vipers before I sent her on one of them

There is very, very little public transport in America - in part, because places in America tend to be very spread out because there's a ton of space; in part, because a lot of places were designed around the assumption that everyone would have a car. And, in part, because car companies bought up many of the light rail systems in the US and basically scrapped them in the 40s and 50s.

Public transportation is sparse, slow, and unreliable, even in the relatively large city I'm from. The bus system in my hometown sucks.

public transportation privilege!!!

Internalised Car-ism!

Even if they wanted to walk their kids places, well, shit like this happens:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/dad-arrested-pick-kids-school-article-1.1523389

....That's crazy and really sad. Is it cause of all the school shootings you guys have or some kind of other reason?

Everything I see over there is...a culture of paranoia that feeds on itself?

and wait, so what if the kids like, live around the corner from the school? so the parents can't walk there? the kids can't walk home????

Do they have a walking school bus*, could nearby kids sign up to that?

*a couple of teacher or parent or volunteer walks from house to house picking up nearby kids and walks them to school/across roads as a health initiative. didn't have it when i was young but it looks cool

I've never lived anywhere with public transportation. But forget that. I just want to live somewhere with consistent sidewalks.

Pretty much what you said. There's a diner a five minute drive from me, and it should only take ten minutes to walk. I still drive, because otherwise it's not safe.

Public transit where I grew up was terrible, but my parents rarely drove me places. I used to bike 2 miles to get to my best friend's house and then maybe we'd bike another mile to go to the movies.

Not everywhere has awful public transit, though. When I moved to Boston for college, the fact that I could *go places* was a revelation.

Not everywhere has awful public transit, though. When I moved to Boston for college, the fact that I could *go places* was a revelation.

Exactly.

Also, the attitude I see in a lot of places that "people who ride public transit are all scum" makes me sad.

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(Anonymous) - 2013-11-23 23:53 (UTC) - Expand

And I hope I'm not offending anyone either, but do you mean to tell me that in most countries it's normal for parents to send their kids alone on public transport? Even little kids, younger than teens? That's pretty shocking to me. I lived in Japan for a while and it was pretty normal there (exceptionally low crime + exceptionally good transit systems), but I thought countries like Japan were the exception for doing that.

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Also, even in a town like mine where public transportation is reliable, convenient, accessible, clean, safe and cheap, and the main routes run every 20 minutes for 18 hours a day, a lot of people still think it's terribly, terribly inconvenient to have to wait at all.