mondoman712 @ mondoman712 @lemmy.ml

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A lot of people are already priced out of driving. We need to be building that public transport network, along with active transport infrastructure and better land use anyway.

We already have a way to solve this, just don't drive so much.

Did you read my comment? It isn't about links to London. It's about capacity across the network, it just happens that the best way to create that capacity is to build new links to London, because then you can remove all of those fast moving intercity trains off of the existing network and just have the local and freight services that can then bunch up more closely together and run way more frequently. It does have benefits beyond where it runs, for example by releasing capacity in Birmingham New Street, we can run more frequent trains out to Aberystwyth. I'd argue that most of GB does benefit, by getting faster journey times and released capacity when they travel into areas that are affected, but even then, does every project need to benefit everyone? I'm all for more investment beyond the areas that directly benefit on top of this.

HS2 is the investment in local transport up and down the country that we need. The point isn't to get people to and from London faster and the fact that you think that is a failure of their marketing.

The point of HS2 is to move all of the longer distance services between the larger cities on to their own line, reducing the effect of mixed traffic and allowing for many more local and freight services on the existing lines. This then lets local councils massively improve their own local systems, such as the plan for a huge increase in transport in the East Midlands that can't happen since the eastern leg of HS2 was cut back.

Except obviously the pentagon needs some cash to deal with the aliens.

But every recipe from the US uses kosher salt, which means their measurements don't match for other salts, but if they gave the weight it wouldn't be an issue. 5g of salt is 5g of salt no matter the size of the crystals, but one teaspoon can be totally different.

Mmmhm you're a puppet if you don't support oil and auto interests.

And everything is measured by volume. Just tell me the amount of salt I need in grams and I don't have to worry about if it's kosher or not.

Smaller cars are great. "Unsafe in an accident" is dependant on speed, and if you're just driving in a city you don't need a vehicle designed for highway speeds.

Also other vehicles do exist.

Fewer shipments would be needed for more efficiently sized vehicles, so it would happen less.

The article linked in the post says:

A spokesman for the Coast Guard said earlier today that the fire is believed to have started in one of the electric cars. Later in the evening, the Coast Guard said that nothing is yet known about the cause.

So yeah they aren't sure but it's coming from the coast guard not the journalist.

If we only had cars where they are needed, for emergency and delivery vehicles etc, then the demand for these sorts of things would reduce massively and the likelihood of something like this happening would plummet.

The video talks about Prague and the central areas that aren't pedestrianised. There can be interesting areas but the focus on cars makes them unpleasant to spend time in.

If you do manage to talk to some other people, you might find out that they can have different opinions to you.

It's cheap because it's subsidised. Car users don't pay all of the costs. And it's popular because places are designed for it to be the most convenient option. When you design places that aren't for driving, people will use other modes.

All necessary vehicles can be accommodated in pedestrianised areas when needed, as they already are in many places around the world.

Car infrastructure comes with many extra external costs, such as increased heathcare costs due to pollution, increased travel due to the extra space needed between everything, etc

Individual transport is great when it respects the world around it. A bike doesn't need so many resources, nor does it take up so much space or cause harm to those around it.

Autonomous electric vehicles don't go far enough with fixing the existing problems. Sharing helps but you still don't need to take all that mass along with you on your commute, and there isn't space to have everyone else in a city doing the same every morning.

I see fuck cars as mostly for venting frustration with cars and poor planning, but there aren't really the other communities around it for the more constructive conversations yet on lemmy.

+1, I use waymarked trails, combined with https://brouter.m11n.de/ (which can show the trails) to get distances and elevation.

From your own link:

Suburban and small metro counties: These 1,093 counties – sometimes called “suburbs” in this report – include those outside the core cities of the largest metro areas, as well as the entirety of other metropolitan areas. This group includes “large fringe metro,” “medium metro” and “small metro” counties in the NCHS classification system.

And when I said "most people live in cities", I was including suburbs, and in fact its mostly suburbanites that I was referring to since they are the ones sitting in these traffic jams. People in denser urban areas, or I guess what you're thinking of when I say "cities", own fewer cars and use other modes more.

There's no "narrative", you just had a different interpretation of what I meant.

Do you need any more that what I covered in the OP?