If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity

Re:If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity by mtalantikite on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @01:47PM (#41112061)

Yeah, that's what he was saying. I mean it didn't look the safest, but that's never something that has bothered me. A large part of my 20s were spent being places I probably shouldn't have been all around Brooklyn in the early 2000s. As soon as I got on the Miami metromover and noticed I was the only one not strung out I knew what I was getting myself into. The palm trees were maybe throwing me off -- as a New Yorker palm trees meant vacation.

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Re:If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity by rangestransform on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @02:14PM (#41121701)

I dunno about metromover but I took metrorail in miami every day during ultra music festival and the clientele seemed about on par with the clientele on the nyc subway

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Re:If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity by whymauri on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @03:28PM (#41122562)

I'd say there's a selection bias during big international events. You feel it more than say, NYC or Chicago, because baseline ridership is low in Miami. So when Ultra comes to town there's a larger effect size, IMO.

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Re:If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity by whymauri on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @03:30PM (#41122582)

I know the area well since we had a family business around there. It's a few blocks away from a sketchy neighborhood; rapidly gentrifying today, though.

At one point it was the intersection of 3 sketchy neighborhoods, but it's been a while.

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