Me walking into the crosswalk seeing the cars with no intent on stopping (state law states they must stop for pedestrians)

Only works if you can survive the f-150 doing 60 in a 25 zone 😌

Ah, I didn’t know that. I’m not big into scooters most of what I’ve seen has been the rentable sitting ones that just have a post or standing scooters that don’t have storage, but that makes sense that others have implemented it already. I think you’re right about who it’s pandering to, the venn diagram of people who order this and people who order a cybertruck is a circle.

It has some good design features that I’m surprised hasn’t been implemented in many other vehicles I’ve seen (under seat storage), but I hate the design and can only imagine how bad those angles are if they hit a pedestrian. Even if you need a motorcycle lisence for higher speeds, the number of people riding on sidewalks to this day make this design scary to me even at lower speeds.

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🎶 Goodness gracious, lint starts a fire 🎶

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I’m a trans woman and I recall this myth when I first learned abt trans stuff back in '06 or so. It was widely believed and shared in trans spaces that phytoestrogen could help marginally before getting access to human estrogen. Sites like Laura’s Playground (one of the largest online trans resources at the time) were filled with junk like this, along with a bunch of heteronormative and gender-essentialist takes that were super damaging. I’m glad resources are better and more prevalent now.

That was a long winded way of saying that I’m pretty sure a chunk of the culture war bs regarding soy (“soyboys”) came out of these pseudoscientific claims on trans forums, mixed with a dose of racism (wrt asian cultures that use soy in cooking).

Yeah, I’ve been using the bus to visit home for 6ish years now and there’s no consistancy year to year on how it’ll operate. I prefer the train, but there’s only 1 train each way/day and it ends up being a shit deal time-wise for me since the train arrives into the small city in the late evening and leaves early morning. I dream for the day the midwest gets its shit together

I’m firmly in the fuckcars camp and agree with you, I was more wondering why they made that decision. Someone else answered that they don’t want to pay to use the station, so I guess my question to you then is what local municipalities can do to prevent this/promote better intercity travel. Are they able to require the buses to use the station (and pay for it’s use)? I’m worried this coach company would just shut the line down.

I should also note that this is a popular transit route, there is an amtrak train that connects the cities as well, but only one train a day. I take the bus bc the train schedule is a bad deal if you’re visiting the small city (arrive in the evening, depart in the morning). The bus isn’t as popular as the train, so it seems like they’re cutting costs wherever they can.

That makes sense, as much as I hate it. It’s odd though since the route used to be served by a local coach company in partnership with Greyhound and would stop both at the intermodal station in the college town as well as the bus depot in the main city. The new operater is FlixBus, who bought Greyhound and presumably could have used the station/depot if they wanted; they must have been trying to cut costs on the route.

Nope, it’s ridiculous. This route used to be operated by a different company that stopped at both the station and the depot a few miles away in another part of the city, but the new operater stops at neither.