I have nothing intelligent to add, but I just want to say that I sincerely hate cars. This sub isn’t a joke to me, I wish those god damn things were never invented.
I’m tired of breathing their cancer-causing fumes, I’m tired of the honking and screeching, I’m tired of worrying I’ll get run over just walking around my neighborhood, I’m tired of micro plastics in my brain because some fat asshole was too lazy to ride a bike, I’m tired of climate change threatening global stability. Sorry for the rant.
This is one if the reasons I think car-dependent suburban sprawl is so much environmentally worse than so many people think it is. I’ve encountered far too many people who think sprawling suburbs are full of nature just because they have trees and grass lawns – usually to contrast with “concrete jungles”. Like yes, dense areas could often use more greenery, but car-dependent sprawl is nowhere near being a healthy ecosystem. Cars, suburbs, roads, and all our malarkey are inherently disruptive to nature, so we should do our best to minimize our impact.
That sounds like a horrible idea logistically, you still need to ship stuff from a cargo terminal to the location its needed and putting single containers on rail as their own “train” makes traffic a absolute nightmare there will never not be some kind of truck unless we can Teleport shit around or airships become a cheap, fast and reliable option.
The problem is mostly that we don’t build rail spurs in industrial areas anymore. If we did, then these cars could detach from trains at a shunting yard, and split up to head to all their different destinations individually. But the only last-mile infrastructure we currently have is roads.
And when they get that driver he will of course be a completely normal guy just fighting the good fight against the repression from all those idiologically damaged cyclists...
I'm on your side and even I think this is a bit victim-y. I can confidently say nobody will be coming on the news to say this guy was just fighting the good fight against ideologically damaged cyclists.
That's probably just a matter of perspective not being from the US.
You are probably used to other topics being the center piece of that stupid culture war always initiated by retarded conservatives, while I am used to every bike lane, single bike, tempo limit for cars or even electric car becoming the next big topic in a discussion about how evil idiologists are trying to destroy our culture, industry and wealth by banning our holy cars and private jets (or some similiar delusion...).
Different propaganda, different kinds of brain-washed morons to expect...
There were 6-12 wild turkeys in my neighborhood. Once in a while, a driver would kill them. It was always a sad moment when you notice there’s some missing.
During the pandemic, there was over 30. Nature was healing.
Unfortunately I moved before knowing if their fate has changed.
Great video! I use Warsaw’s transit system every day and can confirm all that you said.
However there is imo a big issue with this system - the tickets are quite expensive and because of that there is a lot of fare dodging. People figure out that it is cheaper to pay the fine if they get caught. I believe public transport should be free, and it is in many cities in poland already, so why not Warsaw?
What if you link a whole bunch of them together, and then instead of having each cart be self propelled, you could have one car that pushes all of the linked cars at once? Sounds way more efficient to me. If only there was a name for a long chain of linked cars…
As much as I hate SUVs, an electric SUV will probably have a lower carbon footprint than a small petrol car. Obviously the SUV is garbage for many other reasons, but generally speaking, ICE has a much lower energy conversion efficiency, and the oil supply chain is much dirtier than; even though per unit mass, lithium is worse, the sheer amount of petrol the ICE vehicle will consume over its lifetime will outweigh the production of the EV several times over.
The actual calculation depends on how dirty the power grid is in your area, or if you have solar panels.
Either way, I 100% agree that neither of these are good solutions and we should be pushing for public transit and bikes.
Almost 20 years ago Clear Channel radio came under fire because a pair of their syndicated talk show hosts encouraged their listeners to go out and take a baseball bat to a bicyclist. I’m an avid cyclist and I’ve dealt with a fortunately small number of assholes that are susceptible to this kind of suggestion. One guy yelled “fuck Joe Biden”; another guy yelled “you’re gonna get somebody killed!” after another driver went slightly into the opposite lane to pass me.
I think it’s a tossup as to whether I’ll eventually be killed by one of these bike-hostile morons or by somebody looking at their phone while driving.
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