No I get that, but there's this prevailing sentiment that cars are somehow more necessary in rural areas because...they're not worth serving with transit or something? I don't know. I think it's ridiculous. Big cities should obviously have excellent transit and non-car infrastructure but so should small towns and villages
You're so right actually. All of the facts are absolutely being reported with pinpoint accuracy and zero bias or obfuscation by official sources and media that absolutely haven't demonstrated a consistent slant towards a certain side for the entire duration of this latest round of genocide in particular and the entire struggle in general.
Come to think of it, I'm sure the timing of this event, coming at a time when that particular side is actually starting to lose substantial support in the court of public opinion as well as in actual criminal courts, is completely circumstantial and coincidental -- as is the fact that the perpetrator is part of a "leftist" organization that is notoriously riddled with feds to keep an eye on the movement, or the fact that he was treated with kid gloves and allowed to shout FREE PALESTINE loud and clear for the cameras to capture, by a police force that normally shoots kids with toy guns -- the same police force that was pointing guns at Aaron Bushnell as he burned to death.
Completely above board and natural, I'm certain.
And you think the feds don't have enough experience to draw from to plant a convincing-looking manifesto?
Doesn't have to be either. I wouldn't put it past the Zionists to consider two unsuspecting lives an acceptable price for the massive PR boost they're getting out of this
I don't think you'll find anyone with a lick of sense in here that's advocating for zero cars -- just that the way the system is currently set up prioritizes cars above everything else when it ought to be the other way around -- cars ought to be the very last resort instead of the first option most people go for. Taxis absolutely have their uses, and yes they should be cheap, but not so abundant as to divert people from using mass transit like buses or trams
I think the confusion stems from the fact that the actual vehicle that the Brisbane Metro rolling stock is based on is also called a Hess LighTram. There's a good chance that this is also going to end up just being a BRT like the Brisbane Metro, or (maybe) an adapted guided bus system. We'll have to see, it's still extremely early days for this project. Honestly I'm just glad they're considering something like this, we have precious few modernized transit options in any of our cities.
Oh, my bad -- I thought the headline showed up in the post too!
I live in Mumbai -- while the commuter trains have lots of room for improvement, they do run at ~3 minute headway for most of the day, and that's on tracks shared with the national rail network. I'd expect a metro system with its own dedicated tracks to be able to do even better, at least at peak hours.
Just to be clear, I'm not complaining -- 5 minutes is pretty great, and the Mumbai Metro system (separate from the commuter trains) is also worse at about ~6 minutes -- but even so, I was hoping this system might be able to achieve times like the Paris or Moscow Metro
I think the point being made is that having to drive everywhere makes people even less kind than they usually are, as borne out by road rage incidents
I mean, "in a world where everyone chooses comfort my kid chose a natural birth" absolutely is looking down on women who opt for C-sections. He's Indian, we're very judgy about this sort of thing
This is Line 2A on the Mumbai Metro. The train sets were built locally by BEML, but Alstom supplies the signaling infrastructure.
I should also mention that only two of the four operational metro lines in Mumbai currently have bike infrastructure. It's pretty annoying
He's a fed himself, is the point I'm making. He's not some innocent patsy being framed, he's in on the entire thing for the optics of it