Oxford becomes UK's electric bus capital as 159 vehicles join fleet (www.theguardian.com)
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Predictably, it’s the 15-minute-city conspiracy crap.
In U.S. Pacific Northwest coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), stormwater exposure annually causes unexplained acute mortality when adult salmon migrate to urban creeks to reproduce. By investigating this phenomenon, we identified a highly toxic quinone transformation product of...
Dubai Metro is getting a third line in 2029. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Line_(Dubai_Metro)
old but still relevant vlog - opinion - rant on the dangerous reality of cars
It’s insane the lengths that some people will go to save a few seconds on their commute, while also endangering others.
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rivoluzioneurbanamobilita, Italian "Big Clearance! 12 in place of 1!"
"Grande offerta! 12 per 1!"
ENFB cyclists' union, Woerden, 1993; poster by Theo van den Boogaard
ajsadauskas, There's a new RMTransit (@RM_Transit) video up about high-speed rail from Melbourne to Sydney.
It's definitely worth checking out. Reece makes the case that more overnight sleeper services and electrification are an important first step: https://youtu.be/IMUcV_nxsWY?si=8reQjPjsrwVTcecx
My two cents on the topic is that HSR from Melbourne to Sydney should implemented as a series of incremental upgrades, rather than a single megaproject.
Between the 1970s and 2010s, the Hume Highway between Melbourne and Sydney was incrementally upgraded to a freeway-standard continuous dual carriageway road: https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/operations/roads-and-waterways/environment-and-heritage/heritage/hume-highway-duplication/history
It wasn't done as single megaproject. Instead, it was done in small segments. A bypass around a town. A section of road between two town upgraded to dual carriageway. Eventually, over 40 years, the whole road was upgraded.
We should be doing the same thing with the train line from Melbourne to Sydney.
Not as a multi-billion-dollar megaproject, but as a series of discrete projects to upgrade sections of track to electrified HSR standard: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/24/start-building-now-to-fulfil-sydney-melbourne-high-speed-rail-ambition-labor-urged
That means faster train journeys from Melbourne to Sydney today, with full HSR rolled out incrementally over the longer term.
jedsetter, Hey @RM_Transit not sure if you're aware but nsw trainlink who run the syd-Melb xpt have placed an order to replace the xpts and it doesn't include sleeper carriages. I think that would've been worth including in your vid because it really kicks the can on expanding sleeper service another 30 years down the road. It's not insurmountable, but it's difficult to see expanding sleeper service as a viable way fwd when we have brand new carriages that don't have that function.
I think a bit of advocacy and awareness around that issue would be helpful!
luciedigitalni, @ajsadauskas @RM_Transit @fuck_cars totally agree. there is no excuse for work not to start immediately on upgrading the tracks between Campbelltown and Mittagong. That will have significant benefits for freight and passenger services to both Canberra and Melbourne
They probably assumed this is like a theme park or something and not an actual city that people actually live in year round. Cities having nice, people friendly places away from cars? Who’s ever heard of that?
This is in a city of 175,000 people. And in a “liberal”, West Coast, US city. You really can’t get away from this stuff in North America.
rivoluzioneurbanamobilita, Italian 6% of car drivers are cold blood animal killers, 89% of which are SUV drivers
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Interesting experiment showing car drivers intentionally going on the road shoulder to kill by standing (fake) animals. Not surprisingly the majority of those are #SUV driversITA
Interessante esperimento "scientifico" in cui si vedono automobilisti cambiare traiettoria per investire animali finiti sul lato della strada. La maggior parte guidano SUV
BurningRiver, Europe has so many awesome wagons, and we get almost none of them. People here would rather drive lifted hatchbacks that handle like shit, rather than a cool wagon.
7of9, Erm, I guess this is one of those cases where words don’t translate well between variants of English … I hardly ever see “station wagons” (estate cars?) here, whereas there’s lots of cool lifted hatchbacks around like the Fiat Panda 4x4
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ajsadauskas, Spotted on Instagram. Your NSW tax dollars hard at work...
MsDropbear425, @rowdypixel @ajsadauskas @fuck_cars Ha, maybe Bruce Cockburn might sing about that? 😜
OddFed, If only there was a autonomous vehicle that could move a ton of people around that fully operates underground. Like a super car! Maybe Elon is going to invent something…
New York City’s congestion pricing program is moving forward with a $15 fee on passenger vehicles, reports Stephen Nessen in Gothamist, after the MTA board voted to approve it. The program now enters a 60-day public comment period before a final vote....
Cycling numbers are up in London!...
Car-brains now actually blowing things up in suburban England, with the tacit support of Tory MPs.