Subj : Re: EVs
To   : Adept
From : Arelor
Date : Wed Oct 25 2023 13:37:55

  Re: Re: EVs
  By: Adept to Dr. What on Thu Oct 19 2023 08:18 pm

 > I guess? I mean, cars still pollute in a variety of other ways. Though, real

I am very biased against trains. I used to take trains to go to $work, but one
day there was a grup of politicians and unionists in my same coach talking
about how they were taking advantage of the train network to have so many
lunches at the taxpayer's and traveller's expenses and decided to cut it off.

Also you need to pass TSA-like access controls to board certain trains here. If
I am a paying customer I am not gonna consent to that, period.

ON a practical level, the problem with trains is there is no way on earth to
have rails run to hañlf the places that need means of transport. Nobody is
ever building a train station in a 20 miles radius from where I live. If I need
to go work from here I will need to use something else.

Buses have an edge because they use existing infrastructure. This is the reason
why I can take bus combinations to and from nearly any part of the country that
matters to me. There is a bus stop I can reach in reasonable time by foot.

And bus transport here is costs 25% what train transport does. THey keep
pushing this idea that train's are worker's transport, but there is a reason
why workers and humble travellers will take the bus any freaking day.

Buses still fall so short, though, because you can't count on them being
available when you need them. If your shcedules are not flexible you many still
not be able to take the bus at all.

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