mondoman712
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- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 2 days ago:
Again, it doesn’t have to be more difficult, if most people don’t own a car there will be a lot more demand for public transport, and the services can be expanded to accommodate this much more easily. I can go hiking and usually not worry about getting home because the trains are hourly at the worst and connections are easy. It’s only more difficult because we’ve built a world around making things as convenient as possible for cars.
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 2 days ago:
Flat terrain makes it much easier to build fast rail. If there’s another city on the way you could have a high speed rail connection, or a sleeper train.
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 2 days ago:
I live in Switzerland, and I go hiking almost every weekend without using a car. There’s plenty of places to do so accessable by public transport, and still the vast majority of journeys here are done by car. If even a quarter of those car journeys were instead taken by public transport, that would mean a doubling of public transport usage and justify huge expansions.
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 2 days ago:
If you’re at the point of worrying about how much wear on the roads your buses are doing, it’s time to lay down some rails.
Where do you live that actually taxes fuel enough to cover the entire cost of the externalities of cars? A study shows it doesn’t in Massachusets, and this shows it doesn’t in Europe
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 2 days ago:
Lots of people in this thread seem to be missing this. With no cars it makes sense to build a lot more public transport, cycling is suddenly nice and safe, and car oriented places don’t make any sense to build anymore.
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 2 days ago:
That’s true now because 1. Most people in these areas drive and 2. Roads and driving are heavily subsidised. You’re not going to have the same service in small towns as in big cities, but you could certainly provide something useful.
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 3 days ago:
If people use public transport instead of driving, there would need to be many many more services and it suddenly becomes a lot more convenient, even outside cities.
- Comment on Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site 3 weeks ago:
There’s also some useful context here: lobste.rs/…/archive_today_is_directing_ddos_attac…
- Comment on ‘We’ve seen it decimate areas’: Somerset town’s traders oppose parking charges 2 months ago:
It’s not rural, it’s a town of 21,000 with many other towns nearby. There’s already buses which could easily be made more frequent and to cover more routes.
- Comment on ‘We’ve seen it decimate areas’: Somerset town’s traders oppose parking charges 2 months ago:
Free parking is a huge subsidy given to those who need it least and only serves to exacerbate urban sprawl. Drivers should be paying for the space they take up along with all of the other impacts they have on the urban environment, and the money should be used to provide viable alternatives to driving.
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- Comment on Get in the pod, inhale the fumes. 7 months ago:
Cars still suck even without the dependence. I live somewhere that very much isn’t car dependant but there’s still too many of them and they still make places miserable.
- Comment on Get in the pod, inhale the fumes. 7 months ago:
Your hobby is fine as long as you don’t impose the externalities on other people. I don’t want to hear your loud engine, I don’t want to breathe your fumes, and I don’t want to worry about getting hit while just walking around.
- Comment on Anon likes trains 8 months ago:
Can’t do public infrastructure, unless it’s roads.
- Comment on Infrastructure construction in Britain is defective. The most budget UK tramway is more expensive than the most costly french tramway 11 months ago:
There isn’t long running strategic planning for this type of thing and no consistency in the volume of work, so the construction industry can’t invest in having the capacity. That and risk contingencies are way higher.
- Comment on If political agendas were released, or summarized, like patch notes would people better understand what they are signup for? for? 1 year ago:
We have that in the UK, the parties all publish manifestos before elections. I think it helps to get the message across and to be clear about what they are and aren’t promising to do. They aren’t, however, legally enforceable so parties aren’t obliged to actually follow up on their promises.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
New roads don’t reduce traffic, they create more. It’s called induced demand. We should be building viable alternatives to driving.
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- Comment on Train passengers face price hikes and fewer seats after HS2 cancellation 1 year ago:
The offer was always about capacity rather than speed, something which is clearly desperately needed.
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- Comment on The level of engagement on Reddit these days 1 year ago:
Yeah way before. I had a bit of a look through some announcements and couldn’t find it so I can’t say exactly when.
- Comment on The level of engagement on Reddit these days 1 year ago:
IIRC they changed the way they calculate the scores a few years ago, which generally increased the numbers you saw.
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- Comment on Bicycle use now exceeds car use in Paris 1 year ago:
Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, is usually credited for it. It works in Paris because the official boundary is quite small compared to other cities, about 100km^2 containing 2 million people, whereas in Berlin the equivalent is almost 900km^2 and 3.5 million people. So the population that vote for her are almost exclusively urban dwellers whereas in Berlin the mayor has to appease suburbanites too.
- Comment on Homeless people should not be arrested just if they smell - minister 1 year ago:
Oi mate, u got a license for that stink?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
No NSFW art, but nazi comics are still allowed 🤔
- Comment on Amsterdam testing system that can remotely slow e-bikes down 1 year ago:
Switzerland had this up until 2012, when it was abolished because it cost more to administer than it was worth.
- Comment on Amsterdam testing system that can remotely slow e-bikes down 1 year ago:
For anyone that might be interested in this: it’s only for certain ebikes. Standard ebikes that only pedal assist up to 25km/h don’t need anything special over a regular bike, which afaik is the standard limit in Europe. You can get ebikes that go up to 45km/h and they are regulated more like mopeds, requiring a number plate, rear view mirror, and that the rider wears a helmet.
- Health gains of low-traffic schemes up to 100 times greater than costs, study findswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 year ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 5 comments