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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • I’m aware that the person is disabled, but they explicitly stated in their comment that “there’s currently no reason for someone to switch to public transport” and that “all this is going to do is annoy and upset people”. That to me implied that they didn’t think of cycling as an alternative to driving a car at all, which is understandable given that they probably can’t cycle. So all I did was offer the perspective of someone that does cycle and has to ride on busy streets because there are no bike lanes in hope that they’d appreciate that perspective just as much as I’d appreciate someone giving me their perspective when I’m missing something due to my personal circumstances.

    I agree that there need to be alternatives to cycling in place for those that can’t or don’t want to cycle. Its all about capacity planning, though. If you assume that 20% of your population will use bikes for short to medium distances you’ll have to plan with much more frequent and larger busses or even consider building subway or train infrastructure to get all these people to their destination than if you assume that 70%-80% will use their bikes. So as a transportation planner you’ll need to make a judgement call on how you want the future of transportation to look like in the area you’re responsible for, but I don’t think the choice to make biking the backbone of transportation is necessarily to the detriment of everyone else. To the contrary, the public transport might be less crowded if most people use their bikes, so that for example folks in wheelchairs or those with trouble walking have it easier to get on and off.



  • Oh definitiv. Ich habe an der Uni im Bachelor alles per Hand mitgeschrieben und bin damit sehr gut gefahren. Im Master hatte ich dann ein Semester lang die Vorlesungen stattdessen mit LaTeX mitgeschrieben, weil ich die Hoffnung hatte, dass es dann einfacher zu durchsuchen und besser zu lesen ist. Allerdings musste ich dann deutlich mehr Zeit in die Nacharbeitung stecken, weil von den Vorlesungen fast nichts mehr haengen geblieben ist.

    Kann natuerlich sein, dass das auch Gewohnheitssache ist und man mit digitalen Mitschriften gleich gut lernen kann, wenn man das von klein auf immer so gemacht hat. Fuer mich ist es jedenfalls nichts.