If you had teeth and a jaw strong enough to chew and eat metal, what do you think the best would be? Copper’s obviously a basic bitch answer, but I just don’t think aluminium would have the depth of flavour. I mean, I don’t want to be the lead guy, but why mess with a classic?
I’m the world’s worse advocate for wasps. Everytime I see people repeating bees=nice good pollinators wasps=bad stinging meanies, I face a deep internal struggle trying to explain how they are important to the environment without explaining wasp facts that freak them out in ways they never even thought
“Bees might be cuter and make honey, but wasps are VERY important too, some of them are necessary as pollinators themselves! Hey anyways you wanna hear some fucked up things about figs?”
“You hate wasps? Well think of a bug that you hate more then wasps. There’s probably a parasitoid wasp that lays their eggs inside them and their babies to devour them alive from the inside, reducing that insect species’ population!”
“Your least favourite bug is parasitoid wasps now? Well you are gonna be THRILLED and CONFLICTED about the existence of hyperparasitic wasps.”
The article is now 5 years old, so lets figure out if things have gotten any better.
London: 92/272 - added 42 stations
Paris - 9/303 - no change (paris is actively hostile to adding accessibility)
Barcelona - 153/165 - added 24 stations
NYC - 118/472 - added one station (note: not all stations are fully accessible)
Tokyo - couldn’t find concrete numbers, at least in english, just “96” (note: from 2022)
LA and DC still 100% accessible
A couple systems to add:
Chicago - 103/145
San Fransisco - 100%
Hong Kong - 90/93
If your wondering what the main factor is here: newer systems are usually built to be accessibly from the start (both of the fully accessible systems first opened after 1970), the older ones weren’t and its expensive to refit underground stations, this is why the older systems like nyc, london, and paris are so bad (though paris has no excuse for being *that* bad, not even their modern lines are accessible). They’re also often really underfunded (I know the mta is) and have other issues that are more pressing to management (maintenance, new lines, etc)
