Commutes Are Faster For Everyone After Buses Got Their Own Lane On Tobin Bridge
Commutes Are Faster For Everyone After Buses Got Their Own Lane On Tobin Bridge
Taking away a lane for cars to create a dedicated bus lane made for faster commutes for everyone, thanks to faster, more reliable service on one of the region's busiest bus routes.
Taking away a lane for cars to create a dedicated bus lane made for faster commutes for everyone, thanks to faster, more reliable service on one of the region's busiest bus routes.
Man this country's embarrassing. A news story on one 2.4 mile segment of public transit infrastructure.
Imagine telling your kid they need to finish dinner so they can go to bed. So they eat one kernel of corn at a time, and take a minute to chew it. Just, comically taking as long as possible so they dont have to go to bed. That's the US on addressing climate change. We're a goddamn child that don't wanna.
Also, the kid is shoveling down junk food at the same time.
Tbh force semis to stay in the rightmost lane to alleviate traffic issues as well. 18 wheelers should not be in every lane going 2 miles below the speed limit and trying to pass each other for a 1 mph advantage.
This. If they’re not actively passing, they should be required to be in the rightmost lane. It should be illegal for semis to take up 2 lanes, especially when they’re moving at the same goddamn speed.
If there's more than two lanes they should move over, though, especially at on and off ramps. Everyone should. Let people get on and off easily.
Good. Do more
I'm not a fan of the whole "fuck cars" movement, simply because Cars are a central staple of American identity. But I can get behind something like this. Public transportation sucks, it always will, because you're forced to deal with the public. Dedicated lanes for these service vehicles is a good idea, as it lowers the time significantly. I also wish we had road coverings with solar on them. There's about 39 million acres of road in America, and we would only need about 14 million acres of solar panels to power the USA. AND we'd get shade while driving, reducing the need to run A/C.
The particulate pollution from cars would mandate constant cleaning of the panels, which significantly increases operating costs compared to just building solar farms in better areas.
There's also the issue of accidents and adding potential electrical hazards to them if power distribution infrastructure is damaged.
It can work in some places, parking lots for instance, but covering highways in solar panels is too much hassle for the benefits.
I'd be curious about the maintenance costs of converting all roads to solar roads.
Or even just parking lots and rooftops. Solar is just Nuclear at a safe distance.
What made cars so central to being an American? I work from home in a rural area, and I need a car. I can’t walk to the grocery store because they built it too damned far away down a dangerous road. So what could I walk to? “Convenience” stores owned by the same companies that run the grocer except it’s all marked up for the convenience. And My employers downtown office doesn’t make business sense for the one time a month they make me drive down there, and the easiest solution, obviously, is to give me a few days notice that I’ll be in office indefinitely.
From then on there’ll be nothing more American than wasting my life on some stretch of highway with parked cars for miles in front of me, waiting to get to the same exit as everybody else, and then waiting to get through the same lights as they are, so I can get to my house that’s one street away from where they’re going.
Maybe we should critically re-examine what our parents were advertised into believing is the most American thing ever. Before the environmental collapse, please.
What made cars so central to being an American?
FORD, and paying their employees a wage that was enough to be able to afford those cars. Manufacturing in the early 1900s. It's one of the things that Americans enjoy, along with Baseball, Burgers, Blue Jeans, etc.
You've been too entrenched in that "Americans don't have culture" lie that you've been told. Cars are very much a part of American culture. Racing, customization, engineering, speed, freedom to go wherever you want, whenever you want. Cars are central to individualism and a massive part of our culture.
Additionally, we're far less population dense than other nations, with exception of Russia, Canada, and Australia. Individual travel is a necessity for our populace.