Posts by nerdbear@masto.ai
(DIR) Post #ASNASKHsoyubnpZZoW by nerdbear@masto.ai
2023-02-03T19:12:55Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@MatthewToad42 @rob_cornelius @breadandcircuses We shouldn’t mine *any* minerals for private electric cars. We should #BanCars in cities. That would also avoid a lot of mining for electricity generation, as a huge increase in it would not be needed.Not going to happen, unfortunately. The junkies that most of humanity is will only exchange a shot of gasoline in the vein for a snort of lithium. We are doomed.
(DIR) Post #ASNASLqJ2U2ccsga6i by nerdbear@masto.ai
2023-02-04T08:07:01Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@MatthewToad42 @rob_cornelius @breadandcircuses You forget the massive microplastic emissions of all cars, especially electric ones. People cannot continue using cars. It’s time to stop producing them now, not in 100 years. Car production now has high emissions, even if in the distant future the production somehow were “clean”. It’s better to keep using (less) already produced petrol cars while phasing them out in cities—fast. 1/2
(DIR) Post #ASNASMRsmm6CVQGag4 by nerdbear@masto.ai
2023-02-04T08:13:11Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@MatthewToad42 @rob_cornelius @breadandcircuses If there were will, there would be a way to stop using private cars today. A start would be halving the space allotted, and giving walkers and bikers right of way everywhere with heavy penalties and actual enforcement. Those who “have to” use a car will have to start sharing, turning cars into buses. Densification will follow.Chinese cities will be livable quicker than the West. 2/2
(DIR) Post #ASNASMxQtTKu5H1mr2 by nerdbear@masto.ai
2023-02-04T08:27:25Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@MatthewToad42 @rob_cornelius @breadandcircuses Also, plumbers etc. can use a cargo bike or even an (electric-assisted) cart that can go on public transport. At least if the city were an actual city with reasonable distances, instead of a horrid car-dependent sprawl. That’s why densification should have started long time ago. Now, just as we have no carbon budget for producing more cars, we have none for actual (concrete) construction.
(DIR) Post #ASNASNQr84s7YWnHiS by nerdbear@masto.ai
2023-02-04T08:30:39Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@MatthewToad42 @rob_cornelius @breadandcircuses So, since the humanity didn’t fix its idiocies in time, it will have to suffer a bit and get used to walking and cycling long distances in bleak sprawling suburbs that cannot ecologically support quality public transport. Or else we are truly doomed.
(DIR) Post #ASNASNw3G5pF7HOCLA by nerdbear@masto.ai
2023-02-04T08:37:45Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@MatthewToad42 @rob_cornelius @breadandcircuses Just improving bus services is not going to make people switch to public transport. The only thing that will make complacent rich brats (that includes most people in the Global North) switch from their cars to buses is making it comparably painful to drive: making it very expensive, reducing space, and giving priority in intersections to active travel. Cars always yield.
(DIR) Post #ASNASPLxzE9JVwWPNA by nerdbear@masto.ai
2023-02-04T17:16:17Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@MatthewToad42 @rob_cornelius @breadandcircuses Yes 6->2 lanes with BRT or tram and cycle paths is exactly what I’m talking about: making driving uncomfortable while providing better options.I guess you live in a very different culture, if you think people there can be persuaded to use buses just by make them available. In Finland, no chance, car culture is very entrenched.
(DIR) Post #ASNASQZTSUY3I7qi48 by nerdbear@masto.ai
2023-02-05T09:08:57Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@MatthewToad42 @rob_cornelius @breadandcircuses In many places there is no space for quality public transport or cycle paths, so you need to do the stick to do the carrot.Where there is space, there probably is already a bus in the general area, but the low car-oriented density cannot ecologically and economically support quality. The only way is the stick: to reduce space for cars so people have to walk/cycle/P&R to trunk lines.
(DIR) Post #ASNASSS6SrqB7qPqr2 by nerdbear@masto.ai
2023-02-05T12:42:43Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@MatthewToad42 @rob_cornelius @breadandcircuses About expensive and infrequent buses: I currently live right next to the main rail corridor of Finland, with very frequent and comfortable local trains to central Helsinki, sort of (the trains leave you 250m from the train station doors; there's parking closer to the doors). But to go to the office, I'd have to take an infrequent (~20min, none on weekends) bus in transversal traffic for ~4km. To go to municipal daycare, 3km in opposite direction…
(DIR) Post #ASNASTCtetGrSyJDn6 by nerdbear@masto.ai
2023-02-05T12:47:02Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@MatthewToad42 @rob_cornelius @breadandcircuses … needless to say, that would be huge waste of time. So we have to pay for closer private daycare: not an option for most. And I walk ~35min to the office, as it's faster than the bus, including the arbitrary waiting time. Most are also not going to do that: they'd drive. Cycling is unfomrtable due to low quality intermittent paths. They're also going to remove all zebra crossings over 4-lane road on the path on the pretext of pedestrian safety…
(DIR) Post #ASNASTetylfkrpPaRU by nerdbear@masto.ai
2023-02-05T12:49:59Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@MatthewToad42 @rob_cornelius @breadandcircuses … Turning some into beg buttons off the straight path (slalom), and removing some altogether. So it's all about making cars faster. There would be space for islands, to only have to cross one lane, if they would shave off 30cm/lane (there is already a central island/cycle path between the two directions). But no, removing space from cars is never an option in #Finland.
(DIR) Post #ASNASUCvwEtWZNKlUG by nerdbear@masto.ai
2023-02-05T12:53:22Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@MatthewToad42 @rob_cornelius @breadandcircuses #Finland is a weird USA-Europe hybrid. It is extremely sparsely built, and aside from central #Helsinki, there are very low quality ”multi-use” cycle and footpaths nearly everywhere. (In central Helsinki the car is the sole priority.) The purpose-built very long distances don't make Finnish pseudo-cities particularly walkable or cycleable, and, needless to say, fast movement of cars has priority in all traffic planning.
(DIR) Post #ASNASUsPS24Ue0jt8S by nerdbear@masto.ai
2023-02-05T12:56:49Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@MatthewToad42 @rob_cornelius @breadandcircuses About disabled people: with the proper infrastructure and density, they don't need cars. In the Netherlands you see the disabled and old people using tiny speed-limited electric vehicles on cycle paths.