boem@lemmy.world to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoIt’s time for Americans to embrace small carsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1169arrow-down113cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnews@radiation.party
arrow-up1156arrow-down1external-linkIt’s time for Americans to embrace small carsarstechnica.comboem@lemmy.world to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square31fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnews@radiation.party
minus-squareNouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-21 year ago you can’t have public transit that is affordable. Total cost of a bus is ~$122 USD/hour ($165 CAD) A car costs $729 USD / $988 per month on average and is used 380 hours per year on average. Therefore $23 USD / $31.2 CAD per hour (no driver cost, unlike the bus). Therefore bus costs the same to run as 5 cars. We can’t afford to not have public transit. Edit: the bus data is in USD, the car data is in CAD. I missed this and originally wrote 4 cars had the same running cost as a bus instead of 5.
Total cost of a bus is ~$122 USD/hour ($165 CAD)
A car costs $729 USD / $988 per month on average and is used 380 hours per year on average. Therefore $23 USD / $31.2 CAD per hour (no driver cost, unlike the bus).
Therefore bus costs the same to run as 5 cars. We can’t afford to not have public transit.
Edit: the bus data is in USD, the car data is in CAD. I missed this and originally wrote 4 cars had the same running cost as a bus instead of 5.