subs/communities/magazines (in case of kbin)/sublemmies, every one of those names are good but never call them "subreddits". haha
subs/communities/magazines (in case of kbin)/sublemmies, every one of those names are good but never call them "subreddits". haha
I’m torn - I love taking the tram but tram lines make roads so much harder to maintain and for cyclists they can be extremely dangerous (I’ve had 2 close calls myself).
To me it sounds like it may have been fault of badly designed infrastructure but I don't know how your city looks so you may be onto something. And about maintenance, what's so hard about maintaining them? Roads already need a lot of maintenance and cost a lot to pave them.
One thing I’ve noticed (maybe because it snows a lot here) is that the road around the tram lines tends to weather away a lot.
I’ve never looked into it but my guess is that it makes roads way harder to maintain - where you can simply revamp a whole rectangular section of the road, with tram lines you have to work around and along them.
Seems like the badly designed infrastructure is at fault:
Tram track surfacing, the Viennese tram system uses large concrete reinforced panels, wide enough to span between the tracks and narrower ones at the sides of the track. The panels’ edges are steel, and the panels can be quickly lifted out for attention to track or utility ducts below. This system seems to work in Vienna, where buses also operate (though single deck) and maybe there are some HGV restrictions to prevent the highest axle load vehicles from passing over them. However, tram track designers and developers in the UK, don’t seem to be familiar with this system as they regularly encase tram tracks in reinforced concrete, leading to vehicle damage at the interface of the rail and road surface.
Source: https://bathtrams.uk/...
Thanks for sharing. The first picture in that link is very similar to the damage I’ve seen here
I wll save your response so I can look it up later.
We absolutely need more trams but this image is slightly misleading as it assumes all the cars are going to the same place as the tram - integrated transport networks are really complex and I worry that if we try to gloss over those complexities it'll make it harder to convince people to take it seriously
Replace the tram with a bus and you get the same thing driving everywhere the road is. And if you look at the name of the sub you will see that it's not like we are agains ALL cars, only most of them. Cars are way to go for some edge scenarios that can't be accomplished even with a very good public transport and micromobility.
Edit: and why would the average person need to care about complexity of public transport? All they need to do is to get on the ride and get where they need to be.
Cities -> bikes + robust public transport. Country side, cars to get around the countryside and busses to get to the closest railway station
And when picking a car it should be a small electric car, not a multiton death machine that exhausts toxic smoke.
To continue my argument, NOONE I know cares about the complexity of building new roads but government is still throws money at them building more of them with no problem. The average person only uses the infrastructure it's up to government to set everything up for people.
I don't see this as a popular solution anymore. It doesn't address the issue of transfers and the last mile problem. Autonomous rides hare vehicles seems like the next logical step. When enough vehicles are autonomous we can double travel speed and increase safety by 10fold.
Autonomous vehicles still take up a lot of space, and with more public transit stops, the last mile becomes the last 100 yards, which you can easily walk. Or if it really is a mile, you can hop on a shared bike or escooter.
Or even better, trams with dedicated space for bicycles so you can take your bicycle wherever you want.
thanks for using Leebra!
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I want to copy paste this pic as a reply to every thread about the "Electric car battery breakthrough" posted on the tech subs (subs? magazines? Lems?).
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