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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Recently visited York (UK) and they have a fantastic bus system - and they're electric.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Busses in my city are also going electric. So far only the local routes. The longer distance routes are still diesel

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is the propaganda I can get behind.

And with trolleybuses powered on a renewable grid, it's zero gallons!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now consider an electric bus

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are there multiple tracks?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well, there's two. Only problem is the often obstructions and questionable breaking system

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Acktually, to use a VPN, you would need to turn on your PC or phone, which uses a small but existent amount of petrol -🤓

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hydroelectricity, nuclear, wind and solar BABEEYYYYYY!!!!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hydro destroys environments, uses enormous amounts of concrete and the related disasters have killed orders of magnitude more people than nuclear.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It makes a good point but only if your country actually has public transport.

If you live somewhere with zero public transport, the car is your only option.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

That's why the post advocates for public transport. So that we can have better options.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And never mind the rampant spread of bedbugs and disease, being exposed to violence and sexual assault, risking being arrested simply for angering the bus driver, being made late to work or even missing it entirely because of bus breakdowns, route changes or cancellations, or any number of problems that are more easily rectified with an electric car or a bike

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah man because these are all inherent issues and not at all to do with the implementation

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, they are inherent issues. You can't control who goes on that bus and therefore can't guarantee the safety of passengers. You can't control whether buses break down or if the routes will change or not, so you can't guarantee riders will get to work on time, if at all. And in many cities, bus service is so poor that jobs will not hire people who ride the bus for those reasons.

You also can't stop people from spreading bedbugs and disease, and we all saw how well you reacted to that during covid.

Accept that you're just wrong on this. No matter how much you want buses to be a viable solution, they just aren't.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, I'm curious if you think all mass transport is just a no-go then. What can be done?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Electric cars, of course

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nice. I have to travel like 17 miles to the nearest bus station. This fixes everything! /s

Better off with my own vehicle when it's only like 8 miles to work. I'd be literally wasting 9 miles to the bus station and 9 miles back in my own vehicle to even get back and forth to the bus station.

Edit: Seriously, have any of you tried traveling 17 miles to the west, only to catch a bus going 25 miles to the east, passing your own town to get to work? Then going 25 miles back, only to have to drive your own vehicle back home, because the bus don't stop there?

Better off just taking my own vehicle to work.