So in other words, they can afford an EV to use as a second car and still have an ICE reliable enough to go on a longer trip with. I wonder how many of them *travel* with their EV? I wonder how many wouldn't have purchased a second car at all without juicy EV subsidies that might not last forever.
You're right, I would much rather everyone on my street make an individual trip to the garbage dump site rather than having those pesky garbage men around. It all seems too simple and organized, so it must be a conspiracy.
People shouldn't have to hear it the first time. Let those people scurry into the dark, it makes it a lot harder to operate and recruit. Yes, it will happen, but not as easily.
That's a really dumb way to go about it. Buses and monorails do not do the same thing, they should be complementing each other not competing with one another. Buses are much better used to focus on bringing people from the monorail stations to wherever they want to go in the area they service. Their advantages are minimized if they try to be a substitute for a monorail.
Yet you probably have your own belief system that involves some sort of suppression. You probably don't think anyone should be able to send you email spam, or you probably wouldn't want telemarketers to call you 24/7. You just don't ever notice the ways it is used for good.
Well in the case of Vancouver and all Canadian cities that I am aware of, the city runs the transit system and there are few competitors. Though a bus isn't really competition, since the bus routes are all based around the SkyTrain stations and branch from there, it doesn't make sense to do it any other way. Yet still it is massively more popular, imagine that. It's not that there are not alternatives, a taxi will take you there in around the same amount of time but cost $100. That's really how it should be; the city providing citizens with a reasonable and cost effective means of transport.
It really surprises me that the kind of people who have enough money to build a monorail weren't smart enough to think of this. I have never been to Las Vegas, but I suspected immediately that it must have been pretty inconvenient to use and/or expensive to use.
You have to actually make a monorail do something for which there is no alternative transportation. The Vancouver Skytrain is actually the most efficient way to get across the city, so they get 117.4 million passengers in 2010 and 137.4 million in 2016.
Really? You don't see how days worth of falling snow and forming ice falling on someone's head at one time might be more dangerous than a light snowfall.
A mistake happens once, and as I said already within hour where was another person at that line with the same 'mistake'. I just don't agree with a business model that leaves me beholden to some 'third party' to negotiate for me. Hotels have front desks for a reason, and if I can't go to the front desk to complain, then I'm not getting a hotel experience. In the example you mentioned, 'the guy' isn't a corporation doing business with millions of people. These companies are supposed to have the *right* to sell what they are selling, meaning the hotels *know about it and have agreed to it*, meaning it can be *fixed at the hotel*. Any less and they are just leaches and I would prefer to stay away.
If I can't deal with the hotel to resolve the issue, then the OTA isn't worth it. The deal wasn't that fucking good. I guess I'm asking for the world, expecting to get what I paid for.
Well I did it once. Rather my wife did it once, and I didn't realize the kind of poor service I would get. I really don't understand how someone can run a business that 'might' give you what you pay for. Really we usually just book motel 8 but we decided to try something different that time I guess. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is..
I shouldn't have to worry about 'who deals with it', because something that is sold should be granted; period. If the OTA is operating in a way that they can't guarantee said hotel will provide the service, then the whole service is a fraud. If the service is a fraud, I could very well waste two hours on hold with them and get nowhere, because they have already shown that they care not about providing service.
So basically they can promise anything they want then, because fighting with a hotel is bad enough on vacation, I'm not interested in getting in a tangle with some faceless website. Waiting on hold alone isn't worth it.
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The point is, they have a reliable EV, so this says nothing about whether they use their EVs for traveling or not.
So in other words, they can afford an EV to use as a second car and still have an ICE reliable enough to go on a longer trip with. I wonder how many of them *travel* with their EV? I wonder how many wouldn't have purchased a second car at all without juicy EV subsidies that might not last forever.
Perhaps more Norwegians can afford them as a second car, or perhaps there is nowhere to go. or can't afford to go anywhere anyway.
Useless gaming product? My kids played with it for hours.
I blame a system that encourages poorer nations to be the next rung on the ladder down the shithole.
You're right, I would much rather everyone on my street make an individual trip to the garbage dump site rather than having those pesky garbage men around. It all seems too simple and organized, so it must be a conspiracy.
People shouldn't have to hear it the first time. Let those people scurry into the dark, it makes it a lot harder to operate and recruit. Yes, it will happen, but not as easily.
That's a really dumb way to go about it. Buses and monorails do not do the same thing, they should be complementing each other not competing with one another. Buses are much better used to focus on bringing people from the monorail stations to wherever they want to go in the area they service. Their advantages are minimized if they try to be a substitute for a monorail.
Yet you probably have your own belief system that involves some sort of suppression. You probably don't think anyone should be able to send you email spam, or you probably wouldn't want telemarketers to call you 24/7. You just don't ever notice the ways it is used for good.
So an evil leader used the technique for his own purposes once, so now no entity should use it ever in any form, whether for good or for bad?
Well in the case of Vancouver and all Canadian cities that I am aware of, the city runs the transit system and there are few competitors. Though a bus isn't really competition, since the bus routes are all based around the SkyTrain stations and branch from there, it doesn't make sense to do it any other way. Yet still it is massively more popular, imagine that. It's not that there are not alternatives, a taxi will take you there in around the same amount of time but cost $100. That's really how it should be; the city providing citizens with a reasonable and cost effective means of transport.
Then they are idiots if winding them makes them too inconvenient for people to use. Exactly my point.
It really surprises me that the kind of people who have enough money to build a monorail weren't smart enough to think of this. I have never been to Las Vegas, but I suspected immediately that it must have been pretty inconvenient to use and/or expensive to use.
You have to actually make a monorail do something for which there is no alternative transportation. The Vancouver Skytrain is actually the most efficient way to get across the city, so they get 117.4 million passengers in 2010 and 137.4 million in 2016.
Subtle reference!
Well, good luck designing a roof that doesn't retain snow.
Really? You don't see how days worth of falling snow and forming ice falling on someone's head at one time might be more dangerous than a light snowfall.
Holy shit, your complete insensitivity to anyone else and your willingness to make excuses for Apple is simply staggering.
A mistake happens once, and as I said already within hour where was another person at that line with the same 'mistake'. I just don't agree with a business model that leaves me beholden to some 'third party' to negotiate for me. Hotels have front desks for a reason, and if I can't go to the front desk to complain, then I'm not getting a hotel experience. In the example you mentioned, 'the guy' isn't a corporation doing business with millions of people. These companies are supposed to have the *right* to sell what they are selling, meaning the hotels *know about it and have agreed to it*, meaning it can be *fixed at the hotel*. Any less and they are just leaches and I would prefer to stay away.
Funny, people like you talk like it is a common event, but I don't know anyone it has happened to.
If I can't deal with the hotel to resolve the issue, then the OTA isn't worth it. The deal wasn't that fucking good. I guess I'm asking for the world, expecting to get what I paid for.
Well I did it once. Rather my wife did it once, and I didn't realize the kind of poor service I would get. I really don't understand how someone can run a business that 'might' give you what you pay for. Really we usually just book motel 8 but we decided to try something different that time I guess. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is..
Well then that's not the service I want. I like being able to deal with the hotel.
I shouldn't have to worry about 'who deals with it', because something that is sold should be granted; period. If the OTA is operating in a way that they can't guarantee said hotel will provide the service, then the whole service is a fraud. If the service is a fraud, I could very well waste two hours on hold with them and get nowhere, because they have already shown that they care not about providing service.
So basically they can promise anything they want then, because fighting with a hotel is bad enough on vacation, I'm not interested in getting in a tangle with some faceless website. Waiting on hold alone isn't worth it.