• maynarkh@feddit.nl
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    11 months ago

    The mass transit infrastructure we need will take time, and EVs are a good stopgap.

    I’d say yeah, walk and chew gum at the same time. On the other hand though, have they already closed off a lane and started on laying tram tracks where you live? Did the government pass resolutions to start procuring buses?

    I have the feeling that these days with today’s media and everyone focusing on “owning the moment”, something like better public transit is either happening right now, or will never happen until those in power get replaced.

    • Vodulas [they/them]@beehaw.org
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      11 months ago

      On the other hand though, have they already closed off a lane and started on laying tram tracks where you live?

      Funny you should mention that. My city just made a lane on a major thoroughfare bus only and put a express bus to downtown Seattle that uses that lane. The regional transit system is also expanding light rail quite a bit here, so it is happening. It just takes time. The light rail has been almost a decade in the making.