I'm not an American, but why don't we make smaller cars instead?

Just found a really good video covering the example of what’s stopping USA to build transit projects (specifically in LA). He invited an expert suited for this topic and the points are coherent.

• US has been building highways too much, they forgot how to build proper transit
• Environmental issues being weaponized against building transits (while highways keeps getting built)
• Similarly “citizen voice” has also been weaponized, for example Ticket Master CEO try to stop subway project so that it doesn’t tunnel below his Bel Air neighborhood even though the tunnel dug very deep below surface that it won’t affect on top

Highly recommend watching this video.

Just found a really good video covering the example of what's stopping USA to build transit projects (specifically in LA). He invited an expert suited for this topic and the points are coherent.

• US has been building highways too much, they forgot how to build proper transit
• Environmental issues being weaponized against building transits (while highways keeps getting built)
• Similarly "citizen voice" has also been weaponized, for example Ticket Master CEO try to stop subway project so that it doesn't tunnel below his Bel Air neighborhood even though the tunnel dug very deep below surface that it won't affect on top

Highly recommend watching this video.

The article links this: https://www.oliverwymanforum.com/mobility/urban-mobility-readiness-index.html

This year’s index has a new Technology Adoption sub-index, which assesses how prepared a city is to embrace technologies like artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles (AVs), and air taxis.

Looks like the study isn't really about public transport. I was surprised that San Fransisco got to the first place too. But, skimming through the article it looks like the study focuses on "technology adoption". San Francisco got the first place simply because it added robotaxi. NGL, that's dumb.

It's not that good of a study IMO

what's with billionaires trying to make cautionary tales real (Metaverse, etc)

also, to quote some user from Hacker News:

His company, like 9 out of 10 YC companies, is destined to fail. That is all the poetic justice you'll ever need.

I wanted something like Skyscrapercity forum but on Lemmy, or something similar to r/transit.

Thanks, I just made the community

!publictransport@slrpnk.net

BYD is very interesting to me. Immediately after they start selling cars here in Jakarta I started seeing them everywhere.

Lemme know if you made one

Recently, since the new elected president of Indonesia, Prabowo Subianto, has been in office since October 2024, there has been a good news about building nuclear power generator in Indonesia. Specifically, back in October, he stated in Indonesia-Brazil Business Forum that Indonesia wants to build nuclear reactor [1]. There aren't a lot of information about this yet, but it seems that Indonesia wants to use Thorcon's molten-salt reactor technology [2]. Honestly, my knowledge about nuclear reactor isn't deep, but it seems that molten-salt reactor seems really safe as it eliminates the nuclear meltdown scenario [3].

Honestly? As an Indonesian, I can only believe his word when they actually started building, when I see said reactor physically with my own eyes. After all politicians lies all the time, that includes Indonesian politicians. Especially Indonesian politician, haha. Talk is cheap after all. But the fact that Prabowo himself says that Indonesia wants to build nuclear reactor gives me hope.

What are your thoughts on this? Is molten-salt reactor a good technology?

[1] https://www.cnbcindonesia.com/news/20241118110342-4-589011/prabowo-di-forum-internasional-ri-mau-bangun-reaktor-nuklir (Indonesian source)

[2] https://www.cnbcindonesia.com/news/20241110135352-4-587046/kembangkan-pltn-di-ri-thorcon-siapkan-investasi-rp-17-t (Indonesian source)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-salt_reactor

I remember there was a tweet thread a while ago that compares "techbros" reinventing trains to a carcinization--a phenomenon where basically many animals eventually evolves into a crab-like organism.

This is a discussion thread right? I hope I am asking this in the right place

I am thinking about opening a community about public transport/transit here. My questions are:

• how do I promote it so it gets more audiences and it doesn't become empty?
• how do I find moderators for the community? due to many things it's possible that I am not always available moderating it