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Calvin (from Calvin & Hobbes) sitting at a lemonade stand, smiling, with a sign that reads, “Trains and micromobility are inevitably the future of urban transportation, whether society wants it or not. CHANGE MY MIND.”
Image transcript:
Calvin (from Calvin & Hobbes) sitting at a lemonade stand, smiling, with a sign that reads, “Trains and micromobility are inevitably the future of urban transportation, whether society wants it or not. CHANGE MY MIND.”
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yup. point out how people can ride transit safely, they don’t want to hear it. cars are literally destroying the only ecosystem we have in the universe, and we’re letting the car chuds do it because…?
trust me, if the situation was reversed, they’d happily run everyone else down if it meant saving their way of life.
they don’t even fucking care about their own kids.
Micro mobility is great if you plan on never leaving a 5 or 10 square mile area. The problem with that is the majority of Americas have at least 1 trip a month that’s 30+ miles.
No one is making that kind of trip with a micro mobility solution. Especially not in the heat and cold extremes we have now.
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Airplanes are much more crammed than suburb train in the Friday evening in the middle of summer
That trip is almost invariably traveling into a major city center. Like living in/near Buffalo and needing to go to NYC for a service that is not available in your closest city. Which will be extremely well connected by transit to everywhere in the peripheral area and paradoxically, will probably be very easy to make with a system of micromobility connecting into a rapid transit trunk line system.
Might go something like this: Say you live in one of the suburbs of Buffalo. You might bike to a local train station, get off at the main terminal and transfer for an intercity train to New York, get off at Grand Central Terminal, transfer for the subway, get off, and bike to your destination. A transit system that integrates microbobility will let you bring your bike on the train.
So you just turned a 45 minute trip into at least a 3 to 4 hour one with layovers. Worse, you’re going to be exposed to the elements for a big leg of it.
Cars is bad, but not entirely broken if you plan on never leaving a 200km radius.
Meanwhile in Poland: you call that extremes?
Meanwhile in Finland: poles call that a cold? Get a bike, newly hatched chickens.
This is an incredibly dumb take.
You can put micromobility devices on a bus or train (or have one at either end). Or travel at 25km/h in a larger vehicle once a month until you get out of the micromobility path network. Or go to a car parked outside the network.
In other words, you’ve never left a 10 mile square radius.
Yeah, that town 30 miles away I regularly cycle to is in a ten mile radius.