destructdisc @ destructdisc @lemmy.world Posts 54Comments 46Joined 2 yr. ago
I live in Mumbai -- while the commuter trains have lots of room for improvement, they do run at ~3 minute headway for most of the day, and that's on tracks shared with the national rail network. I'd expect a metro system with its own dedicated tracks to be able to do even better, at least at peak hours.
Just to be clear, I'm not complaining -- 5 minutes is pretty great, and the Mumbai Metro system (separate from the commuter trains) is also worse at about ~6 minutes -- but even so, I was hoping this system might be able to achieve times like the Paris or Moscow Metro
My dad was like that, except he was "bad" with money in a very calculated way that made it crystal clear that he was frittering money away on everyone except his family (me and my mother, who is her own horrible can of worms) as punishment for not toeing his line. And yet they both were shocked to the point of rage when I mentioned I'm not going to have kids. My mother even went so far as to say "just make the kid and give them to me, I'll raise them while you and your wife go to work". Fuck that.
Kerala’s first-ever light tram project, inspired by Brisbane model, proposed for Kochi’s non-metro areas
5-minute headway isn't ideal, but it's a huge step in the right direction. I'm quite stoked for this.
I think the point being made is that having to drive everywhere makes people even less kind than they usually are, as borne out by road rage incidents
I mean, "in a world where everyone chooses comfort my kid chose a natural birth" absolutely is looking down on women who opt for C-sections. He's Indian, we're very judgy about this sort of thing
This is Line 2A on the Mumbai Metro. The train sets were built locally by BEML, but Alstom supplies the signaling infrastructure.
I should also mention that only two of the four operational metro lines in Mumbai currently have bike infrastructure. It's pretty annoying
We're all pretending to be mad at Israel now that 14,000 babies are starving to death
As if giving birth wasn't enough of an ordeal by itself, there are people who will judge you for not giving birth painfully enough
For those of us who are childfree due to parental trauma, or whose decision to remain childfree is currently causing tons of family strife to come to the surface, this is for you.
This is unironically true -- being forced into a car-centric mindset makes monsters out of most people