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That’s a bim!
Hey the Queens Quay streetcar. I recognize it even though the pic is slightly deep fried.
OP probably doesn’t know you need to wait 1h in line just to board it out of Union evening rush hour. And that’s assuming it doesn’t get stuck in snow, traffic, crash, etc. Toronto needs subways, and better optimized roads, not more streetcars.
As far as transit goes, the TTC should NOT be the model to follow. It’s better than nothing, but there’s better.
There was a young man who said, “Damn!
It is borne upon me that I am
An engine that moves
In predestinate grooves;
I’m not even a bus, I’m a tram.”Public transport is good, but has it’s own problems. You can’t bring the sort of goods you can with your own transport (or you have to rely on the store to do it, which still leaves the problem of cars on the road). They become superspreader events during flu/covid season. If you have to take care of an elderly family member, they may have problems getting on them and finding seats, which can become a health hazard for them. Scooters have also been banned from some forms of public transport due to the risk of poor quality poorly maintained lithium batteries exploding, which still leaves the last mile problem.
my mom brings home our christmas tree from her SO’s forest every year, takes it on the train and on the bus without issue.
1 delivery vehicle delivering packages to many addresses does not still leave the problem of cars on the road, it can make it a lot smaller if people then cycle walk and us PT more.
This is a problem of design. You’re saying PT is bad because cities make shit choices.
Sure! But like I’d happily pay the 2k per year I pay to maintain a car + amortised cost of a car + insurance to have better PT with like room for cargo and shit. Also not like nearly die every day because of insane tailgaters et al. and free up road space for housing or parks or whatever.
That’s a tram
T R A M
I think the point of this meme was that you must either train your models or use train (trams/streetcars/metro/tube etc.)
That is 100% a streetcar.
77a? I guess that’d be okay. But I want 77b on the T-T-TTC
the line between train and tram is very blurry
Allow me to throw in a viable alternative: bus
Relying on buses that get stuck in traffic isn’t great
I don’t think people are actually asking that. It’s more like companies are trying to promote interest so they can get those sweet grants.
Carcels vs. trainchads
Their chief priority is profit, isolation and creating a sense of elitism. Public transit is incompatible with all that. So we need buses that are set up like casinos with live bands
Public transit is incompatible with all that.
“Take that, you lowlifes! I don’t stay in same cabin as you filthy people, because I am have a gold card that lets me travel to work with way more comfort than you!”
Here is a review of the gold class : https://www.businessinsider.com/dubai-metro-gold-class-experience-review-2018-2?r=US&IR=T#the-verdict-21
I am disapointed. There is no gold.
It already takes me an hour to get to work from my rural home. You wanna make it two?
Which is exactly why we need to build better public transit?
Would that mean faster buses through the village?
Maybe spend a few billion on a high-speed rail though the countryside to my little place?
What harm could that do?
The previous Italian government appointed Cingolani, someone with strong ties to ENI (an infamous Italian multinational energy company with a history of oil leaks and bribes) to the the so-called “ecological transition”.
The current Italian government has cut the subsidies for public transportation and has announced public funding for a renewal of privately-owned cars.
There is no way out of this. The last CEO will die whispering, “profits are up, though.”
to be fair the current italian government are also fascists
