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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.

I'm not from Wales, so I don't know how good the cycling infrastructure is there. But for me this change would make me feel much safer cycling on busy city streets. So this might encourage a few people to take their bike instead of their car.

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.

Paris Est nach Gare du Nord sind 10 Minuten Fussweg, da braucht man also noch nicht mal ÖPNV oder Uber.

Aber das groesste Problem ist eigentlich die Reservierungspflicht / Zugbindung beim Eurostar in Kombination mit der Tatsache, dass man die Verbindungen alle einzeln buchen muss und dann keinen Anspruch auf einen spaeteren Zug hat wenn der ICE nach Paris verspaetet ist. D.h. man darf im Zweifel vor Ort dann noch ein Eurostar Ticket kaufen, falls ueberhaupt noch Plaetze frei sind. Alleine deswegen hatte ich bei einer aehnlichen Reise extreme Zeitpuffer vor dem Eurostar in Paris und bei der Rueckfahrt in London eingebaut, was dann die Reisezeit auf 16h erhoeht hat.

I was forced to stop using WhatsApp a while back because they simply stopped supporting my phone, and I sure as hell wasn't going to buy a new one just to use WhatsApp. I came to the conclusion that anyone that doesn't bother reaching out e.g. via SMS isn't a real friend anyway, and indeed it hasn't affected me personally much. There are some people I've lost contact with completely now, but we didn't have proper conversations when I still had WhatsApp anyway, so not much was lost.