08
Dec

2010

The Village & The Train

Post by Steven Dale

This arrived in my inbox last week and is amazing. Enjoy:





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  2. frankie g
    December 8, 2010 – 11:08 am
    imagine if this happened with a gondola line. every minute you'd hear someone shout "gondola!" and the tents would go up for 5 seconds.
  3. LX
    December 8, 2010 – 11:36 am
    Is it the Manila/Phillipines? A couple of months ago I watched a documentary about such a train. In fact it wasn't really a village. It was an old train running through the slums of Manila - pretty dangerous but the people need it because it is the life-line for that area. Within and connecting other parts. Although lots of people get hit by it or killed. As I was talking to two colleagues which have been recently to Vietnam and Cambodja, seeing dead people next to the street is very common over there. Imagine this and think about how "amazing" the shown video about multi use of public and private area really is. The safest and best forms of transportation are separated ones. Especially in such crowded places. I'm getting goosebumps. Same for Dubai I mentioned about half a year ago. People were killed by reckless drivers by passing the street. That changed a bit when government invented blood money for their families and cars with damages were not allowed to be repared without an investigation. Reinvention of Darwins theories: survival of the richest? Survival of the bigger vehicle?
  4. Rose
    December 8, 2010 – 11:43 am
    "survival of the richest? Survival of the bigger vehicle?" You could argue that same point with cars and people in "developed" countries. Everyone promotes small, energy efficient cars, but when they hit a giant SUV or Hummer, who wins? Big cars cost more and require more gas, but until people stop buying them, little cars wont feel safe on the roads. Why should it feel so daunting to want to "go green" or save some cash or just flat out buy a car that's not 10x the size it needs to be?
  5. LX
    December 8, 2010 – 12:09 pm
    Exactly. But if someone dies in our regions it's different - we care more (in some asian countries you kind of expect your beloved ones to not come home. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oetF3UTIwbc <- first pick, daily picture. ), we learn and we change. And our traffic is better organized, fees for avoiding the rules and so on. A situation like in the clip would never take place in "developed" countries.
  6. Steven Dale
    December 8, 2010 – 5:01 pm
    @ LX, I don't think I was meaning it in the "that's fantastic and amazing! sense" more just in a "I'm amazed, confused, and just generally astounded" sort of way.
  7. LX
    December 9, 2010 – 9:15 am
    I wasn't expecting anything else. It's astounishing to see or at least like the title says: incredible. Whether it's good or bad everybody has to decide for him/herself.

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