mondoman712 @ mondoman712 @lemmy.ml

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And yet where do you think car owners spend more of their time?

Suburbs are part of cities, and are the parts which have higher rates of car ownership. Being able to commute into a city by car is the entire point of a suburb.

The traffic jam is the reality for the vast majority of car owners. Most people live in cities, and they're only too crowded because cars are too big.

Or just design a crossing that actually serves the community it is in.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230717122328/https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/lake-forest-park-against-sound-transit-plans/281-f1504ff2-21c3-408a-afa2-05994cc497ea

Being tall isn't a good excuse for needing a large car anyway

I'd rather not have to breathe in the fumes, and there's better uses of space in a city.

What's the problem with complaining about issues in the city? Most people live in cities. Do we need to add an asterisk to every post to let you know that it's not about you?

You can have road trips and not have to drive everywhere everyday.

Musk "invented" the hyperloop and said he didn't want to develop it and others should. One of the companies that picked it up was virgin. The car tunnels are the "loop".

FWIW the hyperloop ("pods" in vacuum tubes) and the loop (teslas in tunnels) are separate grifts.

This is addressed in the first ~20 seconds of the video.

Bigger roads just leads to more people driving and more traffic, whereas more people using public transport leaves more space for those who insist on travelling with their living room to move unhindered.

You can judge for yourself if the signage is adequate from the council's photos, but I think the fact that I can see that the lane is painted green and says "BUS GATE" on it from the thumbnail image kind of gives it away.

https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/directory_record/136446/moor_street_queensway_outside_moor_street_station

From the article, via google translate:

A pilot phase will run until the end of October 2023, but the measures should be maintained until the new Axenstrasse goes into operation.

I don't see a paywall, but you could try https://12ft.io/https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/07/09/tire-brake-tailpipes-emissions-pollution-cars/ or archive.org

I do realise all of the things you said, you should browse this community some more. It isn't about banning cars completely, more complaining about the issues with them and advocating for alternatives, which based on your comment you seem to be interested in.

Thanks for the info, your links all seem to cover the Emissions Analytics claim, but this article also mentions research from California which seems to have much more realistic numbers.

I think if you look at the community that I posted this to, you might see that I'm not interested in electric vs ICE, just fewer cars.

The good option is lighter vehicles and fewer miles travelled by road.

Vehicle miles travelled taxes have already been discussed and/or implemented in various places, and can be weight based. To me, the obvious solution for distributing this funding in the US would be for the federal government to collect it, and then distribute it back to the states based on the approximate amounts travelled within the states.

IMO it would fit well in the *brainz family (see musicbrainz), and there has been discussion about it, but nobody has taken the initiative to actually start it yet.