Comment on Induced Demand

dumbass@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  behold: busses and trains

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• rockerface@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Having well maintained public transport within 3 minutes of walking sounds way better than driving to me

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  • Emi@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Now just to make it so it doesn’t cost 25czk for single trip.

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    • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s infrastructure, it being “free” (in sense of immediate direct payment) is about as imperative as/is part of it being convenient.

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• Bratosch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well, the car centricism isn’t gonna go away without effort. But the ‘walking effort’ you hate is going to become more tolerable and maybe even enjoyable the more you do it. So, I guess one ‘hate’ is endless while the other is not?

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• Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Pedestrianized infrastructure tends to be denser since they don’t need parking lots. It often requires more effort to get in your car and drive and park than just walking 100 feet in a place without cars.

  China has rideshare bike parking basically on every street, and it costs like 2USD/mo so you can almost always just get on a random bike and use it to go even just 100 feet to get to the subway or bus entrance.

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  • feannag@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The problem with bike share is the helmet issue. I love my bike but I’m not going to carry a helmet everywhere I go on the off chance I might bike.

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    • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Some bike models have a helmet that sits in the basket, and is supposed to unlock with the bike. But the lock never works, and I asked a worker about it and he was like “don’t worry about it”.

      I think nobody bothered to use the helmet because there’s dedicated, usually separated, bike lanes almost everywhere. And then there’s a giant sidewalk you can ride on if you want to go even slower.

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      • feannag@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I like the idea, but if it doesn’t work than it’s not great. Plus sharing helmets can be I’ll advised for health reasons.

        I know there was a company in Europe that was working on a portable airbag style helmet. Hopefully something like that would make bike share more viable.

        Even with dedicated lanes, bike accidents without helmets are more dangerous.

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