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Anyone who can afford a car can afford a bike/ebike or a public transport ticket. Electric cars are not a solution to our problems.
by ndnxhs 8y ago
Anyone who can afford a car can afford a bike/ebike or a public transport ticket. Electric cars are not a solution to our problems.
- makomk 8y agoAs it currently stands, being forced to rely on public transport takes years off people's lives - not in one clear-cut chunk, but in hours stolen here and there.
- ndnxhs 8y agoThat time spent on public transport can be used to get work done vs sitting in a car doing nothing else. Also having a decent public transport system is much much faster than sitting in traffic for hours. The american audience has probably never experienced a good public transport system so they assume its just slow by design.
- steve_taylor 8y agoTrains always seem to lack the capacity for people to sit down during typical commuting hours. Even when you can get a seat, there’s no space to use your laptop because people occupy the space where your elbows need to be.
- ndnxhs 8y agoSo the train you use is bad that means trains in general are bad? The solution is to put more resources in to the public transport system.
- maccard 8y agoI've definitely spent more time sitting in traffic (as a very infrequent driver) than I have waiting on public transport in my life. Try driving across london vs getting the tube.
- makomk 8y agoLondon is the one place in the UK where public transport isn't terrible. It's also the place where the MPs who're proposing this live most of the time, which may explain a lot. Unfortunately, it's also overcrowded and too expensive for almost everyone.
- maccard 8y agoApologies I missed this a few days ago. Transport in Glasgow is also far more efficient than driving. Similarly Birmingham, hull, Manchester are all much easier handled by their transport systems. If you live outside the cities though, you better own a car.
- incangold 8y agoAs it currently stands, the trajectory of our carbon footprint will take years off people’s lives- in one clear-cut chunk. Besides which, cars aren’t faster than trains.
- Symbiote 8y agoLiving in a town or city takes years of people's lives, both gradually as an effect of air pollution, or suddenly through a collision. Public transport causes far less of both problems, and where problems remain (e.g. a town with old buses) they are much more easily solved (buy 200 electric buses).