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Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes

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491 points anigbrowl | 2 comments | 14 May 25 04:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.428s | source
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kr2 ◴[14 May 25 05:12 UTC] No.43981051[source]▶
Chiming in from Los Angeles, USA to say wow, must be nice living in a modern society that prioritizes public transit and peoples' ease of movement. I know, I know, it comes with trade offs of living in an authoritarian state, but the absolute abysmal state of infrastructure in this country is maddening. Ever been on a train in Denmark or Japan or Switzerland?
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stickfigure ◴[14 May 25 05:44 UTC] No.43981202[source]▶
Mexico City has excellent public transit without the authoritarianism.
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pjmlp ◴[14 May 25 08:36 UTC] No.43982269[source]▶
I love Mexico, had a very nice time there and would return, however there isn't without issues including authoritarianism, even if it comes from armed groups instead of the goverment.
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1. stickfigure ◴[14 May 25 16:58 UTC] No.43986766[source]▶
I don't think it's fair to consider cartel crime as authoritarianism. Usually crime is associated with inadequate government authority. Which is definitely an argument you could make about Mexico... but it's very different from China.
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2. pjmlp ◴[14 May 25 20:31 UTC] No.43988845[source]▶
I think the people that unfortunately where born on the wrong Mexican state would be of a different point of view.

For them we are comfortably discussing semantics on an Internet forum.