[ExI] Jimmy 'the Greek' Snyder

[spike at rainier66.com]

> On Behalf Of Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] Jimmy 'the Greek' Snyder

 

>…The problem with any of these solutions for social distancing on mass transit is they SEVERELY reduce the number of passengers per car which is unsustainable from both a revenue generating perspective and a practical one.   I saw the Phillipines had kitted out a demo car to enforce proper spacing, and it reduced the passenger limit by an order of magnitude from 1600 to around 160… Dylan

 

 

 

 

Ja.  Dylan, my concern is that even with a tenth the capacity, a subway car is still dangerous.  Homeless people will still use them as a rolling bedroom, around the clock, and it is still an enclosed space.  Criminals can still use them to victimize people, a problem which might be even worse with lower passenger counts. 

 

Is there any way to compensate by increasing the number of cars?  Do those rigs need human operators?  If not, could we have a deal where there are 5 to 10 times as many trains, get as many roller-eggs in there as possible by taking out the seats and the grab-on poles (are those things structural elements?  (Ashamed of me for not knowing that (I don’t ride them (I don’t like big cities (oy vey, mercy.))))

 

spike

 

 

 

On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 1:58 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> > wrote:

 

 

 

 

> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] Jimmy 'the Greek' Snyder

 

On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 10:21 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> > wrote:

>>…Since the start of the quarantine, I have been pondering the fact that we have built up cities with a population density high enough to make street traffic mostly impractical, social distancing nearly impossible and causing the proletariat to rely on mass transit, which we already know is inherently dangerous.

 For safety reasons, that level of population density must come down.  We don’t know how exactly.

 

>…Contrasting that is the fact that certain services - including ones we have come to depend on, such as schools and hospitals - are only practical with certain minimum population densities, and become more efficient - better able to serve more people on the same budget - with higher population densities….Well, today many bosses are forced to allow it, and inertia may make that an industry standard, lowering the fraction of the workforce that needs mass or private transit to and from an office.)

 

 

Well stated, Adrian.  I agree with all.

 

In the meantime, I am still thinking about a means of isolating people aboard mass transit, using something analogous to an electric wheelchair device with a plastic clamshell barrier around it.  The passenger just gets in, the chair rolls onto the train, rolls back off, goes to the office, without further instruction from the sleeping prole within.

 

spike

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