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At least cars don't produce four tons of manure per year https://99percentinvisible.org/article/cities-paved-dung-urban-design-great-horse-manure-crisis-1894/
by shpx 8y ago
At least cars don't produce four tons of manure per year
https://99percentinvisible.org/article/cities-paved-dung-urban-design-great-horse-manure-crisis-1894/ https://99percentinvisible.org/article/cities-paved-dung-urb...
- rabidrat 8y agoWorse, they produce 4.75 tons of CO2. https://www.reference.com/science/much-pollution-average-car-produce-7f2a3d41ed9d2689 https://www.reference.com/science/much-pollution-average-car...
- eeZah7Ux 8y agoSurprisingly, the environmental impact of a horse is even higher. Public transportation or perhaps electric scooters are the only sustainable ones.
- ant6n 8y agowalking & cycling.
- metildaa 8y agoElectric bikes can be quite enjoyable to ride, the Bafang BBSHD can make it a breeze to go up even steep hills here in Seattle at a swift clip. The downsides come in the form of risk in transit (your in the weather, and have minimal to moderate protection from the road and others on it) and in securing your newfound transport in between use. There are very few dry, secure placea to store bikes & scooters, and fewer yet that have an outlet to charge. Shared bikes and scooters mitigate this problem somewhat, but thus far they seem to have serious maintenance issues after relatively short periods outdoors. Who wants to ride a rattly transport device thats missing screws?
- ndnxhs 8y agoIts not so much of an issue if you own the bike. How many people work at a place that has literally nowhere to place a bike inside and no free power points to use. I have always placed my bike next to my desk.
- superkuh 8y agoPublic transport and electric scooters only make sense in dense urban areas. In these places there's a critical mass of people that want to go to the same set of locations. This premise doesn't hold true in most of the world. Outside of dense urban areas public transport has no benefit from scale and is worse in terms of energy usage than private cars with plenty of other downsides.
- ndnxhs 8y agoMost of the world is not dense but most of the population is. Especially if you look outside of America.
- ClassyJacket 8y agoI have been a proponent of electric scooters nonstop since a recent trip to Prague, where they have Lyme. I had a first date riding them around to no particular destination. Unfortunately, the stupid helmet laws in my city (Melbourne) mean no one will ever use them even if we construct more bike lanes.
- ndnxhs 8y agoFrom what I heard, scooters can very quickly slam you in to the ground if you hit a hole/rock or if the front wheel turns 90 degrees which many of the company's scooters allow. Bikes seem much safer than scooters to ride helmetless.
- pergadad 8y agoFun fact: I'd you go around older and we'll maintained European cities you'll see little holes with metal bars next to most front doors. Those were to scrape your shoes clean of all the street dirt (mainly horse products) before entering.