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[–] 41 points 2 days ago (1 child)

tbf I doubt many Uber drivers actually profit, especially the ones driving $40k cars

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    On the Uber and transport topic, I sometimes get to ride the light rail and I have to drive to the park n ride to leave my car and ride the rail.

    The trip from my home to the park n ride is a quick 10 to 15 minutes by car. By bus it's 1 to 2 hours. By foot it's probably a few days.

    The light rail takes me 30 minutes from north king county to Seattle downtown. If I drove there it would take an hour of mostly just sitting in traffic.

    Progress is slow but if there was a light rail from bothell to Kenmore to the I-5 corridor, that would basically eliminate my need for a 40 to $90 Uber. We only pay that if we a traveling. That way we get a car from our house to the link and then easy 30 minutes to the airport.

    The whole Uber thing is great unless there are only a few riders or a few drivers. Plus the cut that goes to Uber is probably stifling innovation. I recall that there's an open-source Uber system called...

    https://libretaxi.org/

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  • [–] 15 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    a quick 10 to 15 minutes by car. […] By foot it's probably a few days.

    Just as a raw ballpark estimate. By car could be 50km/h on average, with a walking speed of roughly 5km/h, that's 10x the time it takes by car, i.e. 2-3 hours.

    A few days usually takes you trough a few adjacent townships. Do you have to take a humongous detour on foot?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago* (2 children)

    Or they are so weak they can only walk 30 minutes per day and had to rest until the next day

    5km/h is also faster than average walk that is probably not a pace you'd maintain for hours? After considering you also need to stop on intersection you may be getting the average down to less than 4, but then if it's actually a 10 minute ride you'd probably also spend enough time in stop lights and your average speed would also be way lower than 50km/h

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago

    5km/h is on the low end of the "average" walking speed but waiting at intersections and lights will murder that speed. You could easily be on the upper end of six and then have to wait 5+ minutes at an intersection, bringing you back below a 5.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    At my house there are no buses. There are no light rails. There are no sidewalks, no bike lanes. You can walk in the easement of people's front yards but it's mostly a ditch, full of water when it's raining. I live inside the loop highway that runs around my 2+ million population city. Cars are the only option, even most of the homeless have cars here.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 days ago

    light rail from bothell to Kenmore to the I-5 corridor

    that'll be st12? 15? lol.

    after the excavate under the mountain of queen anne to connect ballard....

    honestly the real solution is to move out of the sticks, or stop working in downtown.

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