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Or maybe tell bosses that if your job can be done remotely it should be done remotely. Then there's more room on the bus for people who need to be in meatspace to do their jobs.

We used to have trolleybuses when I was a kid in the 70's, they were so insanely much more nice to ride than a diesel. No bad smell, and they were smooth and quiet.

I guess we will get back to something similar soon, but with batteries.

While I agree with the comparison in the post, the trolleybus powered by renewable energy shouldn't be compared to gas cars.

It should be compared to electric cars powered by renewable energy.

Trolleybuses are great. Fuck Sobyanin.

New electric buses in London are fucking amazing, no need for trolleys.

Acktually, to use a VPN, you would need to turn on your PC or phone, which uses a small but existent amount of petrol -🤓

Very hard to deliver milk over VPN

But the driver is already at work

And it takes them all at the same time?? 😳

nice

That one bus company in the nearby city that absolutely refuses to replace their miserable old buses 🥴🤡 while the others run modern air conditioned hybrids, and some fully electric

with no air conditioners.

Dear Faust. Are they using Soviet minibuses?

Thirty years old is a perfectly reasonable age for a big chunk of a city's fleet. You're still talking kneeling busses.

Then start campaigning for better public infrastructure.

Busses in my city are also going electric. So far only the local routes. The longer distance routes are still diesel

...in a fight right?

Can't take any more, because at 69 you'll blow a rod.

Imagine how bad it would be without the tube and busses! All these people trying to drive in London? Just thinking about it I shudder and I've never even seen London.

Good job they have them, in that case!

According to a study conducted in 1000 cities in 50 countries based on data from connected vehicles and phones. Not disagreeing with the premise but I expect there are plenty of other more "congested" cities, visit Manila or Jakarta for example. The UK should however definitely do more to fund its public infrastructure.

Not all sources agree on that. Also, I can think of a way or two to eliminate all traffic congestion.

I was in London for a few days last year and it was pretty fine

Shamelessly stolen from I can't remember.

I believe England, GB maybe, is very much a mixed bag when it comes to measurement standards.

It's Bri'ish, innit

No, litres.

It's not a modern poster

Reminds me article name from USSR newspaper about plane crash: "Gallons let down"/"Подвели галлоны".

It would be nowadays, but this is an old old advert.

Now consider a trolley.

You make a good point but only if your country actually has roads.

If you live somewhere with no paved roads and only railroads, then that and walking are your only options.

(Sarcasm but I’m curious if you see the point)

If you live somewhere, you're a part of the body that decides things like that. If you want public transit in your community, and you certainly should, take the steps to get the action started.

Nobody is going to change the world on our behalf; it all falls on us.

That's why the post advocates for public transport. So that we can have better options.

It could also be 0 gallons if the busses are electrified, or if the rail system is expanded, or if we stop pushing office workers to commute every day.

There are many routes to 0 emissions.

Sure, I'd love to cycle 56km to and from work each day. Especially right after a night shift.

We should just invent portals already.

How many gallons does the ambulance take to get the cyclist to the hospital after the hit and run?

(Seriously tho bicycles ftw except in winter)

Masks work.

British people all hate English people. Even the English.

Exactly!

70mins of walking/train/walking... Or 25mins door to door in the comfort of my car.

Let me guess, you're a 'murican?

Don't forget Susan, whose base wages are so low that she has to work overtime to make ends meet. But the bus doesn't run that late, so 2/3 of her overtime goes to an uber, whose driver also can't feed her children.

can't walk that far with his disability.

Neither he can drive. Or in some countries even not allowed to.

while he is only 1/2 mile from the bus station

1. This is seriously fucked.
2. Powered wheelchair.

The post is a meme about how buses are a better option than cars because they can transport more people at once using amount of gas less than what would be done on a 1:1 basis.

I feel like you’ve not ridden a bus before though - you didn’t mention schedules or routes once which solve the majority of your claimed points.

The disabled persons perspective is an interesting point, but shuttle services for the disabled would be even easier to run, as they would require vans instead of buses. Also, choosing to live in the country side away from bus routes when you can’t fucking walking is not the fault of the bus haha

Spoken like a true clueless 'murican. What the fuck do you think bus lines are?

Maybe your public transport infrastructure needs improvement? I don't think this post wants to judge you— it's advocating for public transport to be paid more attention. My cousin lives 3 towns away from her workplace— she commutes with a bus or jeepney. We have either buses, vans, or jeepneys; combined they operate 24/7. Hell, my university has students more than 5 municipalities away, the buses start operations early in the morning. Our classes start at 6:30 AM. Oh and btw, our buses have routes more than 300km. Maybe even more. Regarding Eddy, we have something in my country called a motorela or a tricycle, that operates locally in neighbourhoods. He won't have to walk far, he just has to wait for one and let it deliver him to a waiting area.

This isn't intended to refute people saying it isn't?

20 c is a heatwave? Isn't that like 68 F? I'd think 30+ is heatwave territory.

20° heatwave? It's 33° tomorrow and I'll be cycling.

Campaign for better bus routes?

You're quite picky. Appropriate for a 1st Worlder, I might say.

Is the idea of 68 people living within a few blocks of a bus line hard to believe? You know they don't all get on on from the same stop, right?

they only need to live within walking distance from any bus stop along the line. the difference averages out to something around that ballpark

Is that still true for modern hybrid buses?

Edit - also surely mean you need to average 7 people as when it's full it'll be a little over 12 times as efficient as when there's 7 people. So it could run for 10 minutes full then about 2 hours completely empty and it would balance.

Only 7? That's about 10% of rated capacity or 6% of sardines-in-can capacity. And that is for single-section bus.

I don't know how it is in other places/countries but in Paris (inside and in the ≈ 15km area) , clearly, there is always at least 10 passenger in the same bus, I would say 25 average and at the peak hour an easy 50. So I think buses are still an energy efficient transport, at least in some places.

Yeah man if you solution doesn’t completely solve the problem, fuck it! Throw it away it must be entirely useless right. No merit. And plus we have all the time in the world to wait until we have a perfect solution right? Duh!

/s

With the exclamation mark, it's obvious to me that this is sarcasm. However Lemmings seem to take anything not marked with /s seriously or interpret things in the most negative way to the degree that I'm starting to question myself.

This is sarcasm right?