@Fried_out_KombiM to Fuck CarsEnglish • 1 year ago[meme] Trains are 100000x easier to electrify and automate than cars, so why does everyone keep talking about electric and driverless cars?imagemessage-square524arrow-up12.24Karrow-down1156
arrow-up12.09Karrow-down1image[meme] Trains are 100000x easier to electrify and automate than cars, so why does everyone keep talking about electric and driverless cars?@Fried_out_KombiM to Fuck CarsEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square524
minus-square@JamesFirelinkEnglish3•1 year ago But not my city. Calgary was built as a stop on the Trans Canadian Railway Calgary had a pretty extensive Streetcar network around downtown once upon a time. https://saadiqm.com/2019/04/13/calgary-historic-streetcar-map.html
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoHey neat! Just goes to show how history gets erased. Hopefully the green line gets built and we’ll have even some of this coverage back.
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Calgary had a pretty extensive Streetcar network around downtown once upon a time.
https://saadiqm.com/2019/04/13/calgary-historic-streetcar-map.html
Hey neat!
Just goes to show how history gets erased. Hopefully the green line gets built and we’ll have even some of this coverage back.