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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
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That’s a super cute little bus.
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.
What does that fit 3 people?
20 people, 10 seated, 10 standing. https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruau_Microbus
Bellissimo!
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