Aix-en-Provence: Hold my rosé
Similar in size to the bus I used to take to work every day when I lived in Japan. I miss being able to wake up thirty minutes before I had to be there and still making it on time.
No medieval city claims that. Hell, they are more walkable and transit oriented than more modern cities that were designed for cars. Stop with the straw men.
No medieval city claims that.
Its a common enough argument in the UK. I’ve even seen a few instances in which bus stops have been taken down because people were complaining about the traffic they created (small street with no passing lane, so when the bus stops, the dozen cars behind it are bottled up).
None of the busybodies trying to sabotage the local transit system seems to want to recognize the twelve cars behind the bus as the problem, of course.
None of the busybodies trying to sabotage the local transit system seems to want to recognize the twelve cars behind the bus as the problem, of course.
I feel like I perhaps know who may be driving those cars
Saying they don’t like the location of a bus stop is not saying you can’t have busses.
It’s also not true. Don’t know any towns in the UK that don’t have buses and use small streets as an excuse.
Most of the towns in the UK that don’t have buses use lack of funding from central government as an excuse, which is a pretty good excuse.
Bluebus 22: 5,460 m (17.9 ft)
Dodge Ram: 6,340 m (20.8 ft)
If you don’t have room for busses now, when will you have room for all the parking required for everyone to drive a car around all the time?
Cities should be transportation centric. Not just cars, not just bus, or bike, or walkable, it should be designed to fit them all together so people can use whatever they want and it’s not a headache. Cities currently are NOT car centric, otherwise traffic lights would be timed correctly by a standard that works. Cities are “create traffic” centric, and there is no intentional design going into making sure people can get from point A to point B under any circumstances. The metrics they currently use on traffic is how long people spend in it, so if you get frustrated and simply go home instead of running errands, they see that as a success. One less person. Instead of supporting local economies by making travel easier in general.
Cities are inherently car centric. Think about a typical crossroads controlled by lights. When the light is green, a car can enter the junction and can then leave in any direction (sometimes it has to wait for oncoming traffic, but it can always leave when the lights change again). When the light goes green for a pedestrian at the same junction, they can cross 1 road only.
Fundamentally, the cars are in the middle. They don’t have to cross pavements (or cycle lanes) to turn. Everyone else has to cross the road.
Of course, there are exceptions, where a junction has been designed so that, for example, pedestrians can cross diagonally. Likewise the cycle lane sometimes continues across the junction, but mostly doesn’t.
They have the same problem in Siena, Italy.
“Fuck cars … but not this car.”
Public transportation is cool, giant SUVs are not.
Damn, if only we had more than two options.
Cute little bus just gonna keep transporting
How many people can sit in that little thing?
They don’t need to sit that many. It’s not an interstate route that runs thrice a day and carries 300 people in each run. For it to be an alternative to cars you need to have lots of route and they need to be quite frequent - which means less people in each minibus.
The ones I used to take ran every ten minutes and we would pack thirty to forty people on for each trip during rush hour. They really needed to bump it to one bus every five minutes from about 6am to 8am if only for safety reasons, but even packing them to standing capacity like we did I never worried that I wouldn’t be able to get on and get to work in the morning.
My hometown has very similar ones and they can hold up to 25 people adding up seating and standing space, don’t underestimate them
Here in my town, they simply have a refurbished van with like 12 seats hauling people around.
I’ve seen those. In the suburbs here they often have call-ahead pickup to specific locations, like the only remaining mall or the library.
“Hold my mustard” made me smile :D
It’s not the medieval cities that fight tooth and nail to prevent public transit.
I feel like the top statement is a -
Said no-one ever
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chamonix_Gruau_Microbus_«Le_Mulet».JPG
Just saw these in Chamonix too!
What does that fit 3 people?
20 people, 10 seated, 10 standing. https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruau_Microbus
