The Big 'Let's sell our cars and take buses/ebikes instead' thread (warning: probably very dull)
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Nobody has claimed buses are faster.Stevo_666 said:
I said 'need to', not 'do'rjsterry said:
If buses are in their own dedicated lane, they can't be obstructing car drivers. It must be something else getting in the way of the 🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🤔Stevo_666 said:
It is, but it's also a fair questionrick_chasey said:
Can I assume this is a joke?Stevo_666 said:
I don't understand why poor people need to get places faster than the rest of us?kingstongraham said:
Get the buses moving faster than cars everywhere possible. And by possible, I don't only mean places where that doesn't inconvenience car drivers.Pross said:
It's not necessarily optional though as some of it will be people having to take leave so not driving to work. It's not that big a percentage change either but a tiny amount either side of a junction's capacity has a big impact.kingstongraham said:
Every school holiday shows how much difference a reduction in optional driving would make.rick_chasey said:
Well in which case scrap it all.kingstongraham said:Not much traffic this week.
Average speeds have been declining all over the place for a long time now.
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Just as well. Especially when you add on the time spent walking or taking ebikes to get to/from the bus stops, changing buses and waiting for the next one etc.rjsterry said:
Nobody has claimed buses are faster.Stevo_666 said:
I said 'need to', not 'do'rjsterry said:
If buses are in their own dedicated lane, they can't be obstructing car drivers. It must be something else getting in the way of the 🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🤔Stevo_666 said:
It is, but it's also a fair questionrick_chasey said:
Can I assume this is a joke?Stevo_666 said:
I don't understand why poor people need to get places faster than the rest of us?kingstongraham said:
Get the buses moving faster than cars everywhere possible. And by possible, I don't only mean places where that doesn't inconvenience car drivers.Pross said:
It's not necessarily optional though as some of it will be people having to take leave so not driving to work. It's not that big a percentage change either but a tiny amount either side of a junction's capacity has a big impact.kingstongraham said:
Every school holiday shows how much difference a reduction in optional driving would make.rick_chasey said:
Well in which case scrap it all.kingstongraham said:Not much traffic this week.
Average speeds have been declining all over the place for a long time now."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
They should be. It makes sense.rjsterry said:
Nobody has claimed buses are faster.Stevo_666 said:
I said 'need to', not 'do'rjsterry said:
If buses are in their own dedicated lane, they can't be obstructing car drivers. It must be something else getting in the way of the 🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🤔Stevo_666 said:
It is, but it's also a fair questionrick_chasey said:
Can I assume this is a joke?Stevo_666 said:
I don't understand why poor people need to get places faster than the rest of us?kingstongraham said:
Get the buses moving faster than cars everywhere possible. And by possible, I don't only mean places where that doesn't inconvenience car drivers.Pross said:
It's not necessarily optional though as some of it will be people having to take leave so not driving to work. It's not that big a percentage change either but a tiny amount either side of a junction's capacity has a big impact.kingstongraham said:
Every school holiday shows how much difference a reduction in optional driving would make.rick_chasey said:
Well in which case scrap it all.kingstongraham said:Not much traffic this week.
Average speeds have been declining all over the place for a long time now.0 -
I wonder when the whole mobile phone update cycle will shift from annually to a longer cycle? I can only imagine it's a very small minority who now update annually.rick_chasey said:Well since I was banging on about metals in the earth being a limiting factor on electric cars.
One of them isn’t anymore (though refining capacity and location still is)
I've never been a flash 'must have the latest thing type of person' but I did often want to update quite quickly with new features being advertised or a performance slow down of my current model.
However, my current phone will be 4 later this year and it really hasn't experienced any age related limitations that I've noticed. It was the prior years model when I bought it too.0 -
Yup. Mine will be 4 years old this year and I’ve seen nothing to entice me to an upgrade. Will probably be a catastrophic event that will cause a new purchase.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Mine will be 7 in June and I use it loads, quite impressed it has done so well. Get the occasional bit of slowdown these days so it might not make it to 8.- Genesis Croix de Fer
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I think it’s quite telling that 5g has been around since before covid (it did cause covid after all) and that still seems to have had a very limited roll out.
I remember all the encouragement to get a 5g handset back then. If I had done, the 5g would never have been able to be used other than for about 10 days I’ve been in either London or Manchester.0 -
So much for the argument of needing a car for the weekly shop or to carry loads
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brommelstroet_please-tell-me-again-why-you-need-a-car-ugcPost-7051244087890305024-HcaV?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios0 -
Somebody should tell him about rucksacks.0
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Economist has done one of its special reports for carmakers, if anyone is interested.
It's not really look at it from a transport system perspective (so isn't concerned with traffic in general, but it does list that they think car-ownership may have peaked), but some relevant stuff here which is contrary to what I have posted in the past here:The biggest deterrents to buying an electric car—price and range—are slowly being overcome. Tightening bottlenecks for raw materials, such as lithium and nickel, caused battery prices, which are still around 40-50% of the cost of a new ev, to rise slightly in 2022. But scale and new tech have pushed prices down by as much as 90% since 2008.
Though it does mention the geopolitical risks in this article: https://www.economist.com/special-report/2023/04/14/troublesome-tensions but sees them as challenges that can be overcome in the medium to long term (although possibly at some cost to the consumer long term).0 -
At one of my local parks yesterday which is very popular with dog walkers and has a good café, so gets a lot of visitors from slightly further afield. The number of EVs was quite notable and all driven by boomers.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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Only ones rich enough to afford them obviously.0
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Someone tell Rick that Boomers are saving the planet.rjsterry said:At one of my local parks yesterday which is very popular with dog walkers and has a good café, so gets a lot of visitors from slightly further afield. The number of EVs was quite notable and all driven by boomers.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
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I reckon mine are too.rick_chasey said:I think my scepticism of EVs is well documented
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
They will bring in road pricing.0
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If Surrey suburbia is anything to go by, ICEs will soon be a 'heritage' industry.Stevo_666 said:
I reckon mine are too.rick_chasey said:I think my scepticism of EVs is well documented
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Not many in Cambridge FWIW, and I'd have expected more.rjsterry said:
If Surrey suburbia is anything to go by, ICEs will soon be a 'heritage' industry.Stevo_666 said:
I reckon mine are too.rick_chasey said:I think my scepticism of EVs is well documented
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The people have spoken
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Glad I don't live in Bath.kingstongraham said:The people have spoken
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
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I like cycling and driving round my way, tarick_chasey said:You'd like it if you cycled around there ;-).
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
It's obviously an overwhelmingly popular policy.
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Like all good Roman cities there are lots of hills. So if you don't like hills then you might not enjoy cycling around there!rick_chasey said:You'd like it if you cycled around there ;-).
BANES has always been a Libdem stronghold.
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Quite clever round here.
I've mentioned the labour council here want to introduce a £5er a day ULEZ for Cambridge City.
They announced it about 2 months ago. All the angry car driver lot all were saying it was a bad idea as it would lose them lots of vote.
Of course, in reality, the parties in favour had so much of a lead tha it was never in doubt, and now they've spanked the only party against it (tory, natch), they now have a mandate to go the whole hog.0 -
Oh I don't know, you should see how they mow the grass.Stevo_666 said:
Glad I don't live in Bath.kingstongraham said:The people have spoken
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So no change in town, with a couple of seats swapping from labour to lib dem.rick_chasey said:Quite clever round here.
I've mentioned the labour council here want to introduce a £5er a day ULEZ for Cambridge City.
They announced it about 2 months ago. All the angry car driver lot all were saying it was a bad idea as it would lose them lots of vote.
Of course, in reality, the parties in favour had so much of a lead tha it was never in doubt, and now they've spanked the only party against it (tory, natch), they now have a mandate to go the whole hog.
In general quite a big swing towards tories in town, inversely correlated to how well off the wards are (poorer the ward the bigger the swing towards tories) so that does suggest that the only topic in town did affect things.
But tories are so far behind they were never gonna get a sniff.0 -
That'll learn them for going for these woke leftie policieskingstongraham said:It's obviously an overwhelmingly popular policy.
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