Operating Systems, Transit and Cultural Influences

Re:Operating Systems, Transit and Cultural Influences by shepherdjerred on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @03:10PM (#38548852)

I think one part of this is that flying is a much bigger deal than other modes of transport. Many people hate flying and don't do it super often, so many of these features are designed to make the experience a bit easier.

People who use public transit probably use it semi-regularly and thus know where to go for the necessary information.

In summary, flights are done less often, making people less likely to have well established workflows. Public transit is done more frequently, so anyone who uses it probably already has some way to access the information that they need.

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Re:Operating Systems, Transit and Cultural Influences by bluGill on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @05:05PM (#38550176)

This is about longer distance trains not local public transit. That is trips between NYC and Chicago, which is something you can take via train but not a trip anyone would take very often.

The problem with flying isn't so much that people hate it - some like it. However no matter how much you love flying, it is always at least 4 hours of your day to fly anywhere: you have to get to the airport, spend an hour in the airport, then you fly, which for a very short flight might be an hour, then you have to get out of the far airport to where you are going. That is the best case, often it is longer flights and a transfer in some other airport. If the US had a great intercity train system there are many trips that could be faster on trains - but we don't have a great system.

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