Post AKDWIbx6fcnrWoKGpc by mxgene@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AKD44UYYZfClorK1WC by stux@mstdn.social
2022-06-06T11:01:25Z
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Why #Europe Is Insanely Well Designedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u4f52w4qgQ
(DIR) Post #AKD4Kf0XU4xWro7WFM by stux@mstdn.social
2022-06-06T11:04:21Z
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Ah yes :blobcatscience:
(DIR) Post #AKDIzja6maj2HcElhA by wissen_ist_macht_spass@mastodon.online
2022-06-06T13:48:37Z
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@stux I ❤️ trains!!! And 🇪🇺 :) That video is really cool and has so many important arguments to keep in mind!!
(DIR) Post #AKDJ3eoMSZVqeBm59E by ranx@mastodon.social
2022-06-06T13:49:24Z
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@stux and yet them US citizens complain the gas price is too high!!! #@§ò|3$ !!! 🤬
(DIR) Post #AKDJBJreDxNVzvxuiW by shoeberto@straylight.expectnomore.net
2022-06-06T13:50:41Z
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@stux Whoa.. I'm starting to think this U.S. place might not have their shit together.
(DIR) Post #AKDO4qIZjeFCKpI8HY by nomadjoanne@mstdn.social
2022-06-06T14:45:34Z
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@stux As an American who has lived in Europe for a decade, I sort of disagree with this video. It is true that if you could "start all over" you might design the US more like Europe, but these things have histories going back centuries. Urban Europe antedates the car by hundreds of years. So cities had to be compact and densely populated from the beginning. That just was newer really the case in the Americas, even in most of Latin America. Also, where people can afford to, they often prefer to live in proper houses as opposed to apartments. I wouldn't, but many people do. This leads to sprawl and a demand for cars. Is it so bad to give people what they want?This video also seems to confuse long distance trains and urban transport (busses/subways). In Europe people generally don't travel long distance (500km+) by trains, except students. They're in a hurry, they fly. But WITHIN their countries or on short, high speed lines (London-Paris) it is quite common.
(DIR) Post #AKDSmAHLizO6ZTdC0O by gemlog@tilde.zone
2022-06-06T15:38:16Z
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@stux All true *in general*, unfortunately lots of mistakes like the supposed map of high speed rail in the usa.However, if you want to see an even worse comparison, compare canada's :-( Too big *and* too sparsely populated. I do think vancouver has fantastic rapid transit, but vancouverites don't agree and, frankly, I really don't have experience to evaluate it compared to the zero we have in the rest of BC.@trebach
(DIR) Post #AKDWIbx6fcnrWoKGpc by mxgene@mastodon.social
2022-06-06T16:17:30Z
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@stux I'll be honest, I lost ability to hear americans over the sound of flying russian missiles.
(DIR) Post #AKFdefZyxC438wtXv6 by PatPat@mastodon.social
2022-06-07T16:49:37Z
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@stux The solution to traffic congestion is 21st-century flying cars, not 19th-century trains.
(DIR) Post #AKFe8rSFMmBcf3fnlI by PatPat@mastodon.social
2022-06-07T16:55:03Z
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@stux This chart doesn't cite any sources. (and it is incorrect) Here in the US those who drive putt-putt cars are paying about as much as the rest of the world (about $5/gallon). (https://www.npr.org/2022/06/06/1103318977/states-highest-gas-prices)I drive an electric car and it costs me about $2.00 to fill it up. (That's $2.00 total cost to completely charge it up.)
(DIR) Post #AKFiRkUrrJDkOvA2e8 by gergolippai@mastodon.social
2022-06-07T17:43:17Z
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@stux hard to believe nl is more expensive than nordic countries tho 🙄