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.
Good. Do more
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so are gun homicides and police brutality. and obesity…and anti-science conspiracy theories…and wealth inequality…
Don’t forget bigotry and homophobia!
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You made it about American identity. And like many other things we’re famous for, our car obsession is a detriment to people. Especially the big trucks and SUVs. Did you know pedestrian deaths have been skyrocketing?
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.
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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.
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Culture is as culture does. Cars shouldn’t need to be a necessity for all because some people like them. Does minimum wage afford all Americans a new car today, on top of rent? You’ve been too entrenched in justifying your expensive car loan to yourself.
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Okay then both our assumptions were wrong. Again just because cars are your hobby doesn’t mean we should design our society in a way that both assumes and forces car ownership on people. On top of the economics of every household needing at least access to one car, it is literally making our planet unlivable.
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And how many corporations force people to come downtown into offices, and either through fossil fuel emissions or tire particulate, pump carcinogens into high traffic/high population areas? If we want to reduce corporate pollution then we should plan to reduce it across the board, and not allow these real estate companies to dictate WFH.
The responsibility to transition to a sustainable world isn’t on the people. But it is the people’s responsibility to ensure their government is legislating issues like this properly. Failure to do so is letting down all future generations. This summer shows the results of 50 years of failing to face these issues head on and instead allowing profits to influence legislation. One of those influences is to force cars on people.
I understand you like your cars but I believe most people only have their cars for these reasons: to get necessities, go to work, and maybe childcare. And many can’t afford the gas to go much further. If more neighborhoods were designed to human scale, so you could walk or ride a bike to access the peoples common needs, that would make living much more affordable and sustainable for many.
Well then, I suppose if it is CENTRAL to American identity, perhaps the climate will take that into account and bypass the USA. The solution was looking us right in the face.
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