It’s a thing that happens on very rare occasions in very corrupt Republican areas, not a thing that happens with any sort of regularity.
It’s a thing that happens on very rare occasions in very corrupt Republican areas, not a thing that happens with any sort of regularity.
Because bus lanes are usually poorly implemented. Usually they just take out a car lane, call it a bus lane, and wash their hands of it. Car congestion is now worse, and buses still have to wait at the same lights.
My city did a bus lane right: they took a 3 lane road (2 lanes each way plus dedicated left-turning only lanes), eliminated the turn lane and turned that into a dedicated bus lane with dedicated switching. The bus lane switches don’t correspond to regular traffic lights, so drivers don’t pull into the bus lane to use it (think weird slashes and circles) and the buses don’t have to wait at stoplights next to regular cars. Buses fly by the traffic, and cars didn’t lose a lane. They did extensive traffic surveys and found that only a small portion of traffic was turning left across oncoming traffic and those cars spent a long time waiting anyway. So now cars have to drive a few more blocks to turn but it’s almost the same travel time since they were waiting so long before anyway.
They also added bike lanes with raised concrete medians between them and the cars, which double as platforms for bus stops.
It was a huge win for everyone and works really well.
My city also seems to have a weird focus on lowering fares to increase ridership. Going from $2/ride to $1/ride isn’t going to convince anyone to turn their 30 minute drive into a 90 minute bus ride. Or deal with the uncertainty of whether the bus will be at the bus stop on time.
Part of the solution. Public transit needs to be much faster, more reliable, and more efficient too. But it needs proper investment.
Walking is easier than driving for you?
Valid complaint, but not really the focus of this post imo
If you have a problem, and you call the cops, now you have two problems.
This is how you go to prison.
Not always.
If you’re not white, it is ALWAYS.
lol
One of the most badass album titles of all time: The Shovel vs The Howling Bones
Playing KOTOR now for the first time and I somehow made my character OP as fuck.
“Oops, I accidentally pissed off the Sith Academy, guess I’ll just effortlessly slaughter all of them”
“Just a Jim looking for a Pam” is so fucking boring
I’m just an Odysseus looking for a Circe.
Yes, I know what I said.
Those worlds exist. Get better friends.
I literally worked on a factory line in the summer of 2015 right next to the robot they built over the course of that summer to replace us. Felt like John Henry.
It’s now just pure hype and keeping up with the Joneses.
I hate this one. People who have been following carbon capture for years know who is doing it sincerely and who is using it for greenwashing. Of course oil companies who say they’re doing carbon capture are doing greenwashing, no one should be surprised about that. Companies like Climeworks are doing real CCS.
I don’t understand why we have segregated bathrooms at all.
It evaporates. A lot of datacenters use evaporative cooling. They take water from a useable source like a river, and make it into unuseable water vapor.