In case you missed the markings on it, it’s also free and runs on electricity, which in France is low carbon.
I wonder how much of the length cutting was just from being able to remove the ICE and all its associated components.
Not a lot, the engine is under the passengers in pretty much every modern bus.
The opposite is true for the US. Because of the abhorrently large firetrucks you can't have smaller roads.
I'll bet semi trailers contribute as well, it is rarely a single thing.
Also because everything in the US is spread out except for urban areas, mass transit just won't work well for a large part of the population. Didn't help that what transit infrastructure existed came under assault by the oil/car companies of the time, so many places went full automobile.
interesting thing about fire trucks… i asked a fire fighter friend from the US if he knew why their trucks were different to everywhere else in the world, and apparently it’s because US infrastructure is built for military use… if elsewhere in the world had the heavy duty roads, we might also have the heavier fire trucks
I have a hard time believeing this. The not just bike video adresses that tangentially. Non US fire trucks use commercial chassis and are cheaper, carry the same equipment and can fit into urban areas easier. It just seems to be a cultural thing. Truck big!
The abhorrently large firetrucks which increase the response times before they can get out to fires, because things are more spread out. The abhorrently large firetrucks which siphon away more and more funding, compared to smaller firetrucks, and require more manpower to operate, meaning each fire station individually eats up more funding per unit, meaning we can have less fire stations, further decreasing response times.
An increase in response times which increases the size of fires, requiring more and more abhorrently large firetrucks. The abhorrently large firetrucks which cannot respond quickly enough to wildfires and so will allow them to grow more rapidly out of control, perpetuating more wildfire based ecology, more plants which require fire to grow and will encourage further fire. The abhorrently large firetrucks which are not as cute as small firetrucks.
Those firetrucks? Those are the ones we have to build bigger roads for? some people do legitimately believe this shit, too, hoo lee, kill me
That’s a super cute little bus.
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
What are you talking about, even York has buses.
It's not the medieval cities that fight tooth and nail to prevent public transit.
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.
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?
Bluebus 22: 5,460 m (17.9 ft)
Dodge Ram: 6,340 m (20.8 ft)
Aix-en-Provence: Hold my rosé
"Hold my mustard" made me smile :D
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chamonix_Gruau_Microbus_«Le_Mulet».JPG
Just saw these in Chamonix too!
They have the same problem in Siena, Italy.
"Fuck cars ... but not this car."
Public transportation is cool, giant SUVs are not.
Cute little bus just gonna keep transporting
Damn, if only we had more than two options.
How many people can sit in that little thing?
My hometown has very similar ones and they can hold up to 25 people adding up seating and standing space, don't underestimate them
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.
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I feel like the top statement is a -
Said no-one ever
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Bellissimo!
chokes en Francais
What is this? A bus for ants?
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What does that fit 3 people?
20 people, 10 seated, 10 standing. https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruau_Microbus
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.
