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The American mind cannot comprehend this
this post was submitted on 22 Dec 2025
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The American mind cannot comprehend this
I'll freely admit that I cannot comprehend the temporal ordering of twitter comments.
Never really figured out Tumblr indentation either
I don't get it, it's just a big blur. What's this post say?
Could it be that your mind cannot comprehend this?
Usually it’s transit + walking + park-and-ride, not ‘giant garage under the market.’ When the space is for people, you don’t need to store cars there.
Ironically this specific market has a giant garage under the market
Which one is it?
Dresden.
Striezelmarkt in Dresden.
The worst part is when my fellow Americans are very "we tried nothing and we're out of ideas" about it. Or worse, actively fighting any changes.
Imagine looking at this photo and wondering aloud about the parking. Not very realistic
It's called a Christmas market and we have one in Chicago.
This meme is older than the poster of said meme
Americans can understand if you phrase it differently.
"You know how sometimes, you go to a big event, and the parking is so far away from the event that they have to ferry people from the parking lots to the event using a bus? Well, this is just like that, except you park at home."
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In America, you have thousands in tiny cars. Weak and undisciplined, unable hold more than four people.
In Germany, one big car on a long steel road carries thousands of people.
What's funny is in my experience in the USA it's not that there are not busses but they take SOO much longer. I had a job that was 2.8 miles away. It took 7 or 8 minutes to drive there(depending on if you hit the one traffic light on red). Theres a bus stop outside the company. There's a bus stop on the corner of my complex. I looked up on the bus provider website how long it would take...9 hours each way.
Years ago I was living in a different state, a friend was throwing a new years party in his college house and invited me. His college was 3 hours away. I thought about just taking a bus since obviously we would be drinking. I checked the bus schedule... It would take 2.5 days with 4 change overs each way.
I ended up just crashing on his couch and drove home after I recovered from the hang over.
Its just not feasible to take buses here due to how long they take.
9 hours? Jeez.
Though, for 2.8 miles I wouldn't even consider a bus. I'll grab my bicycle and be there in 12 minutes.
You'd probably die twice there
Get there and die twice? That's a bit extreme
I have literally walked maybe twice that distance crossing the city central area of London at 4 AM (at time when there's no Tube and just a handful of night buses once every half an hour or so and only for a few bus lines) coming from a night out and it took me a bit over 1h and I was drunk.
Mind you, in cities in Europe you actually have proper sidewalks, even in suburban areas, so maybe the previous poster had not such conditions to just do it by walking. Also it was only the way back - the way in was done far earlier in the day when all public transportation was active.
Anyways, the point being that even 2.8 miles is easilly a walkable distance, even drunk, as long as you have and hour or so to spare.
True, totally doable and several people did so. There was even a bike rack installed on the premises.
Yep. It's pretty depressing.
A few years ago, I was in Texas with family and we wanted to visit NASA. My husband was adamant in taking the bus because my family are notoriously slow to get ready; fair enough. The bus ride took him 3hrs, which included a 20min walk from the nearest bus stop to NASA. It took us 40min to drive.
Public transport is pretty hostile in the US.
Yeah, now imagine you work at nasa... You wouldn't take the bus to/from work everyday would you?
Exactly! It's nuts. It means that everyone at that facility drives to and from work. None take public transport... at one of the most prestigious engineering bodies in the world.
I worked at a company with about 1000 people at our location... I never saw anyone get off the bus to come to work(there was a bus stop infront of the building and on the side) and on good weather days maybe 3 or 4 bikes there... Everyone else drove.
My small city wants to run its tram line one particularly difficult way just to give fast public transport for the 5000 people who work near the difficult tram stop
Public transport is pretty good in Canberra
And all this from a country founded on rail...
I went to a college that was 2.5 hours away by car and 6 hours by bus. And that six hours didn't count the half hour it took to get a ride to the bus stop from my college. At least the bus let off in my hometown so my folks didn't have to go far to pick me up.
My friend, I think you need to learn how to properly read a bus schedule.
I wasnt reading. It was a form on a website where I put in starting location, ending location and expected arrival time. It said what time I should go to bus stop and how long the trip would take.
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There is actually a parking garage below. But you are really incentivised not to come by car, but by public transport. The tram tracks are just out of shot.
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