711 #ClimateSolutions #Cities #Bikes vs #Busses

It's a trick !!
The carlobby trying to put cycling opposit public transport. So while 'we' quarral amongst eachother about the limited funds, nobody will notice the unlimited funds allocated to the car infrastructure. Which is much more expensive and benefits fewer people.
Guys... it's not a contest. Present the public with enough safe ALTERNATIVES and there will be less cars polluting the streets.

"Are Urbanists Too Obsessed With Bikes? (Why Not Focus on Transit?)" [8:53 min]
by Oh The Urbanity!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvOoTvmt6_c

Quote by OTU:
"Feb 22, 2025
One of the most common arguments against building dedicated bike infrastructure is that we should instead be focusing on improving public transit. This argument sometimes comes from people opportunistically using transit as a cudgel but there’s also a kind of old-school city dweller that fundamentally understands transit in a way that they don’t for this new-fangled bike stuff. It’s worth remembering: in many cities, separated bike lanes are a relatively new idea. Just over a decade ago, Toronto was “considering” building some."

#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside #StopThePlunder
#ClimateBreakDown #StopRapingNature

Is the bus revolution coming?

In the rural areas, if we are to encourage expanded public transport use, then something is very overdue - whether new London-style franchises are the solution is difficult to say, but right now anything that likely improves the bus services in rural areas is worth doing.... whether English local authorities will do as well as Transport Scotland seem rot have done is another matter; but time will tell.

#busses #PublicTransport

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86qy500545o

@iuculano Thanks Joe, I have a dozen tabs open, as I read Halifax Municipality pages and the amount of meetings, raises, bad decisions and the proposed Tax increase, while furiously typing.
I can't go for groceries, without breaking down in tears. All the homeless that upset police and council have been moved 4 minutes from my door, between my driveway and my weekly grocery pickup. COUNCILLORS aren't crying,, OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND, next Agenda Item #Stadium talk, #Busses #Taxes Not helping

Its certainly no surprise to us in the #LuneValley (nor to be frank is this news - there have been previous reports, but its worth re-emphasising) that the last decades have seen a major reduction or even abandonment of #busses as a key element of #publictransport.

It may not be a sufficient to engineer a #greentransition, but reviving mass bus transport seems like a necessary element to have some impact on private car use.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/28/bus-services-cut-by-more-than-80-perent-in-parts-of-england-and-wales-since-2008-finds-study

How bus use has changed in London & in big cities outside of London since deregulation. (from which London was exempt).

From @thomasforth (posted at the other place)

Its quite an extraordinary 'natural experiment' - from which we can draw the conclusion (without too much difficulty) that #privatisation is not the way forward if #busses are to be part of the #greentransition

(and don't get me started on #London exceptionalism....)

Hmmm... first #manchester took back control of its #busses... and now #Liverpool seems to be following... its almost like the cities had an enhanced view of the value of #publictransport at the same time that #¢RishiSunak is trying to make some mileage out of being a friend of the #motorist...

As so often some #politicians seem confused by people being more than one thing at once... many urban drivers would be thankful for good reliable #busses, as then they cold leave their cars at home!

Hoi #Dutch people. Watching the sad news about the #ukrainian #Kachovka #dam it looks like some former #Rotterdam RET #busses are used for evacuations. Any idea when these were sold or donated?

Source @ https://nos.nl/liveblog/2477767-russen-schoten-tijdens-evacuatie-op-inwoners-cherson-eu-stuurt-snel-hulpgoederen#UPDATE-container-69847670

One thing that would really help me: real-time data on the free capacity of busses.

Being disabled, whether there'll be a seat or not makes the difference between a bus I can ride and one I'll have to pass up on. Being given an estimate, like "bus is 50% full, approximately 5% of seats remaining" would be immensely helpful and a preferable alternative to having to walk to the bus station and fuck around and find out.

The tech already exists. What's stopping us?

(If you didn't know, yes, busses count the number of passengers on them. There's little cameras by the door that use object recognition to count, it's used for evaluating the load on existing lines and verify if busses are empty.)

Of course it should be vague enough to not leak PII, so no precise counts, but rounding to 5% (which equals ~4–8 people, depending on bus capacity) would already be hugely helpful. Whether a bus is 40 or 60% full can make the difference between seats or no seats and would make public transport a lot more accessible to me.