#lightrails

[pangeen]

" The Blackforest ↟ " // © Mathias Schindler

[oopsanonbinary]

so i didn't drive until the last year and i used public transit that whole time (about 17 years) and i find a lot of americans pleas for public transit disingenuous.

i've spent most of my life in a place that has a resoundingly mid public transit system, when i had the resources i lived in the most walkable part of the city, and when i move out of my dads it will be to a walkable city in a state i can afford. you can also pry my car and driving life from my cold dead fucking hands.

and i know the pleas are disingenuous because, like i know some parts of the country have zero public transportation so i'm not talking about you, but in my adulthood i've lived in my current california city and the bay area, which had much better public transit, and in both places people did not make the sacrifices to take the bus or train or whatever when they could. if you really care about increasing access to public transportation, by the way, this is what you SHOULD do. you use public transit, it indicates need, it's expanded.

but no. my life has been full, particularly of men though not exclusively, who wagged their finger at me for not driving and being lazy somehow, and then insisting they would start to also use public transit, and then using it MAYBE once and then never again. and never admitting that hey, it turns out, using public transit is hard, and that's without being a young assumed woman and dealing with the sexual harassment.

and look, i'm not trying to say you should care. i did my time, i'm fucking over it, i am pro car bitch. not having to walk for a half hour or take a train after work brings me downright orgasmic bliss. i could suck my own dick about driving a prius with great gas mileage but i'm gonna be real, that car was a gift, it's pure luck. that said, it's a choice i'd make again to offset my love of driving and the autonomy it brings. i'm just saying if you're honest about who you are and what you're willing to do, you can make better decisions that minimize those impacts. do you actually care about better public transit? or are you absolving yourself of any critical thought about your driving habits?

[babanasaur]

trains fullbody 1

One of the train dragons in a fullbody! This character is owned by Vel

[diversifiedvariety]

[metrotransitposter]

as a disabled person in minneapolis who relies on public transit to get around, I can always rely on Jacob Frey and the downtown council prioritizing hypothetical tourists over my ability to access places in my own city and do basic things like getting to medical appointments

[froggierboy]

should i go to pride this year

[kodakcx6330]

santa monica line 05/08/2025

[alltouwell]

accruing vacation time at 3hrs per every biweekly pay period is going to be the reason they send me to the sanitarium for hysteria.

[isaysorryverysoftly]

FUCK EVERYTHING

[queer-talmid]

I get that being shomer is important to people, and if you have hit the point of scarf tassel stroking as a form of intimacy, please just kiss

[wolfman-al]

View of Europaallee in direction downtown Frankfurt from the Emser Bridge. You can see the tunnel ramp of the extension of metro line U5 that will leave the tunnel here and continiue as a light rail on the median of the road.

[isa-ah]

Phoenix was my favorite place to live but man we rode out on a wave of all of the indie artists and musicians leaving bc EVERYONE got priced out. it's like they don't recognize that the indie scene was why people wanted to be there in the first place.

[spottercrazyperson]

Oude RET sneltram metro (SG2 type T) bij de spoorwegovergang en station Prinsenlaan in Rotterdam op 22 mei 2015. Op de laatste dag in dienst gefilmd. Op de achtergrond een SG2/1 (met en zonder R-net) richting Oosterflank en Ommoord. De oude Rotterdamse metro's gingen eind 2015 definitief uit dienst toen HSG3 5701 instroomde in oktober (sinds 30 januari 2016 tegelijk met de 5702 in dienst). Laat voor meer info een reactie achter!

[borahaerith]

Remembering the time I complained in front of a bunch of British people that a lot of bands I like don't come to Washington or even Oregon and all of a sudden they were trying to one-up me by saying ACTUALLY I have it easy and the bands they like only hit 2-3 cities in the UK and it's soooo hard for them. Babe your country is the size of a closet be serious.

[jodieeverestphotography]

[rectangleshorts]

I deserve an extra day of PTO specifically for having to deal with the bay area’s public transport system.