too effing hot

love when the fact-checkin cuzzes get together (seriously)

My second point is connected to this: LA is the only American city that I’ve gotten around in via bus which sometimes vaguely justifies the otherwise bonkers American prejudice that buses have smelly and crazy ppl on them

No shade on Seattle, which admirably makes buses free (!) in the city center, but I have somewhat experienced that there as well on hot days.

Just looked it up, and apparently that policy ended in 2012 after a 40-year run. I guess it shows it's been a while since I've taken the bus in Seattle.

we're working on it from a different angle now: some free fare cards for public housing residents, 50 cents for youth this summer

Free buses ended in 2012 ftr, probably to encourage uptake of tap-on transit cards

and there's started to be more policy talk about figuring out how to make it free for everyone (i mean, through a tax, but you get what I'm sayin)

also https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/10/how-seattle-bucked-a-national-trend-and-got-more-people-to-ride-the-bus/542958/

If you’re afraid of the occasional smelly crazy person then move to the fucking exurbs and stay there

Urban amateurs wear my patience out like nothing else

xposts, sorry! I’m at a bus stop

NYC is opening more libraries on Sunday so ppl have places with AC to go to.

I am running [sic] my morning errands in last night's Mekons concert clothes, bcz where's the sense in taking two showers?

the more people that ride the bus, the smaller the portion of smelly people

I love the buses in my city. They're nice and clean and well-kept, and there's hardly anyone on them.

I just overheard someone a couple of days ago talking about how much they prefer taking the bus in the winter over the summer, because fewer people are riding and they get to their destinations that much faster.

I ride the most fucked bus in the city to and more distressingly from work every day, it can be nightmarishly crowded and slow but people still ride it!

Anyway Seattle’s best air conditioning is on the bus

I love riding the bus because I hate stairs. hardly any tourists on the buses cos they can’t figure it out. mostly old people tbh

Bus is an option if you don’t give a f about your time. Hey man I’ll be there whenever

Leave earlier ffs it’s not rocket science

I can either park four blocks away from the office or walk five blocks to the bus stop.

Boils down to walk an extra block +/- fight interstate traffic and find a good parking space.

I prefer the bus over the subway/metros/tubes if I have the time.

One of the things that brought me to Portland was the really good mass transit. Portland used to be free in a downtown area too - the expert opinion seems to be that it was a good idea that didn't really work and that that effort could better be spent elsewhere. This was before I moved there so I can't speak to it myself.

Re: smelly and/or mentally disturbed people riding the buses - this is going to happen as long as there are smelly and/or mentally disturbed people. And people will always complain about it, and some people who have the option will always avoid mass transit because of it. There are a lot of arguments in Portland, and especially in the suburbs, about making the homeless and overtly disturbed people invisible. I'm against it but I understand why it's something people want.

Ideally the convenience of riding mass transit will be greater than people's fear of people who aren't like them, for enough people for mass transit to be viable.

That's harder in a city like LA, which developed from sprawl, than Portland, which has much less of it. I try to avoid driving in the city if at all possible. Traffic is bad, parking is bad, stress is high, all of these things are worse for me than the possibility of encountering a mentally disturbed person in close quarters. But I am also a luxury space communist, which means I don't expect people to give up luxuries like air conditioning and beef and cars. I certainly haven't.

some of you seem to be losing sight of the issue here, which is that it's too effing hot

it's 72 in seattle and 76 in la and a lovely dry 80 in portland. go take a pleasant bus ride

Leave earlier ffs it’s not rocket science

We'll get a couple of days over 30C again in London midweek apparently although the real feel on a lot of the buses might be 40+ even with the windows open.

the forecasted low here on Wednesday night is 68 and I think the forecast office is smoking banana peels, no way is that gonna happen

^^That's supposed to be because of the front that's making things nice in Seattle/Portland rn...IF it gets here.

I am not in a summer zone right now, but when I was in the city I would put wet towels and alcohols (vodka) in the freezer in case the power went out and at least I would have something super cold to sleep against at night.

It is not 76 where I am in LA (extreme temperature gradient that correlates closely with income is a particularly Southern California problem as well as a macro global thing)

It’s calamitously bright and the air is terrible on the eastside of LA, but relative to New York well I guess it’s a dry heat.

nyc doesn't cool down at night and it's terrible.

I read some asshole nyt or wapo story awhile ago about renters who don't pay their electricity and they just leave their ac on even if they go on vacation for a week or two because it's so nice to come home to a cool place and I lost my mind which I suppose is the point.

apparently those overnight lows above 80 are actual killers https://www.curbed.com/2019/7/18/20699431/heat-wave-record-high-overnight-temperatures

Urgent New York news you can use btw

https://ny.curbed.com/maps/new-york-parks-splash-pad-sprayground-central-park

moose be time for a shower

You know it's hot in Canada when 👇 pic.twitter.com/2aGwkxejQw

— Bob (@Bob_Animal) July 19, 2019

fukin now we get 41 on Thursday

If we got I Love/Hate Weather then I could finally quit ILE, ILM + the sub boards are nearing everything i want in a message board

Again I'm surprised Paris can be 10C higher than London on any given day! Maybe it happens more than I think.

Its bullshit that’s what it is

I kept watching the forecast here, which showed a pretty huge temperature drop starting Saturday night, from 102 down to the 70s, or something like that, but there was never a storm prediction. Which made me scratch my head, since usually huge pressure changes like that are paired with some sort of weather event. I get to Pitchfork fest around, I dunno, 4 or so, and within minutes of walking in the temperature seems to drop several degrees. I've never quite felt anything like that so quickly. Look up, still a little sunny, maybe partly cloudy, good breeze going. Seems like a storm a brewin'? But the weather mostly says chance of drizzle, and just for a bit. Um, OK. Hang with friends for a little, talk about the weather, radar etc. looks pretty clear where we are. Next thing I know there's an announcement that the fest is closing, due to weather, and everyone has to get out. Still no real change ... and then a huge thunder crack. A few minutes later the sky just opens up and dumps down, buckets. I leave the fest, decide to call it a day and head to where I parked. Soaked head to toe, shoes squishing. Hop in, put on the wipers, and within just a couple of minutes ... the rain has stopped and the sun is mostly out. Get home, about 5 miles west of the fest, and my wife tells me they got a few drops of rain at most. Weeeeeeeird. But hey, at least it's nice out now.

I’ve also had the experience of earlier feeling that the weather app was pretty reliable about when and where it was actually going to rain and now not so much.

I feel like my body has an ice cream headache

It’s like the storms are now microstructuring to foil the algorithms

fukin now we get 41 on Thursday

If we got I Love/Hate Weather then I could finally quit ILE, ILM + the sub boards are nearing everything i want in a message board

Anyway it’ll be up to 33 here this week, I am here for it although I will also be enjoying the air conditioning at work

https://i.imgur.com/SzwiU9d.png

For the wunderground.com "feels like," is that where they just make the intern go outside and report what it feels like to him?

our weather is generally amazing this is why shit weeks like the one forthcoming are noteworthy but yes on the weather sub board we will have positive and negative threads, the people must speak

i think i'm gonna try to run in this tonight? one like is one prayer

ay yi yi, good luck

do it after 9

Hot weather things I have learned: there is a 30-minute window in the time a water bottle is in the freezer, freezing that when you remove it from the fridge, the water freezes into slush when you flip the top open.

Bus is an option if you don’t give a f about your time. Hey man I’ll be there whenever

guess what, more buses mean your timing becomes reliable

nb: trains >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> buses, dgmw

If what’s stopping you riding the bus is reliability and you’re somewhere like LA (big headways, no street infrastructure to make waiting non awful) then I highly recommend the app “transit” (bad name). It’s kind of like 4square in that it gamifies riding transit. But when you play the game you’re actually sharing your location with other users, which gives bus arrival times down to like 10 second accuracy. It’s also pretty good at coming up with hybrid routes (eg bus + train + scooter).