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.
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)
What is this? A bus for ants?
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.
It’s not the medieval cities that fight tooth and nail to prevent public transit.
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.
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.
And it’s a shuttle, not a line bus, tbf
And the distinction is pointless. It’s a bus. It is. It simply is a bus. Some kind of bus.
Bus.
Shuttles tend to be free of charge more often than buses, for various reasons. This shuttle being gratis does not imply that any other buses in the area are free.
Why should the name of the vehicle type depend on whether some governments have a tendency to make them free? It’s still a bus. A small bus. A shuttle and a bus. Perchance a shuttle bus. Or just either. But definitely both.
Dude, it’s not a matter of vehicle type, even trains can be shuttles. It just means that its purpose is to bring people from one point to another without stops, usually from some transportation hub. It’s a shuttle because IT’S WRITTEN ON ITS SIDE.
And it’s a bus.
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.
My hometown has very similar ones and they can hold up to 25 people adding up seating and standing space, don’t underestimate them
“Hold my mustard” made me smile :D
The opposite is true for the US. Because of the abhorrently large firetrucks you can’t have smaller roads.
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.
Half of the US is a stripmall 20km away from a suburb on one end and corn on the other with a parking lot in the middle
I’ll bet semi trailers contribute as well, it is rarely a single thing.
That’s a super cute little bus.
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!
