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Transportation planning is my field and sometimes I think it's the most failed field in America.
What we primarily need is a time machine to undo all the hasty ripping out of streetcar tracks and and road building we did in the 1940s-1960s. We put all our eggs in the single-occupant vehicle basket and the results are disastrous. Check out this nice summary why building for all modes is better for all travelers, including drivers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8RRE2rDw4k. I'd move to Amsterdam right now if I could.
Road building is essentially a ponzi scheme and we continue to build every housing development their own interchange ("if you come, they will build it."). We let development drive transportation infrastructure when it should have been the other way around.
Electric vehicles are not meant to save the world but the auto industry. At best, they're the answer to "how the richest among us travel without resorting to public transit or carpooling for a bit longer." As mentioned above, the development of batteries also taps finite resources (with human rights issues that make the oil industry look like summer camp). And the best part:Electric cars release MORE toxic emissions than gas-powered vehicles and are worse for the environment, resurfaced study warns
https://safety21.cmu.edu/2024/03/06/electric-cars-release-more-toxic-emissions-than-gas-powered-vehicles-and-are-worse-for-the-environment-resurfaced-study-warns/
I'm reminded of an exchange on another (sports-related of all things) board I was on asking people if they preferred cities or suburbs. One response was "Suburbs all the way." Among his reasons was "don't want to be a slave to the bus driver. He later mentioned that his commute was 30 to 60 minutes, depending on traffic. I guess we're all a slave to something...1995 Milwaukee 1998 Alpine, Alpine 2003 Albany, Boston, Boston, Boston 2004 Boston, Boston 2006 Hartford, St. Paul (Petty), St. Paul (Petty) 2011 Alpine, Alpine
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Gern Blansten said:mickeyrat said:Tim Simmons said:More walkable cities would be great. that combined with current rail and public transport are probably the best solutions (re doing US rail is probably unworkable at this point). But people aren't gonna give up their cars and electric and its baggage is probably the least bad tradeoff to oil.solar on existing structures and added to new builds. Solar embedded glass. Solar carport situations in office parking lots(more comfortable getting in your car in the summer to boot.)other innovative ways to utilize the energy from the sun....then you look to recycling those as much as possible. but really feed as much real time solar into the grid, reducing coal/nat gas until its really needed.meantime, fund research of other harm reduced means of power.....
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I was reading that there is about 47 years of oil left for us at current usage levels....odd to think in those termsRemember the Thomas Nine !! (10/02/2018)
The Golden Age is 2 months away. And guess what….. you’re gonna love it! (teskeinc 11.19.24)
1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
2013: London ON, Wrigley; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana; 2025: Pitt1, Pitt20 -
Gern Blansten said:I was reading that there is about 47 years of oil left for us at current usage levels....odd to think in those termsHugh Freaking Dillon is currently out of the office, returning sometime in the fall0
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HughFreakingDillon said:Gern Blansten said:I was reading that there is about 47 years of oil left for us at current usage levels....odd to think in those termsRemember the Thomas Nine !! (10/02/2018)
The Golden Age is 2 months away. And guess what….. you’re gonna love it! (teskeinc 11.19.24)
1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
2013: London ON, Wrigley; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana; 2025: Pitt1, Pitt20 -
OnWis97 said:Transportation planning is my field and sometimes I think it's the most failed field in America.
What we primarily need is a time machine to undo all the hasty ripping out of streetcar tracks and and road building we did in the 1940s-1960s. We put all our eggs in the single-occupant vehicle basket and the results are disastrous. Check out this nice summary why building for all modes is better for all travelers, including drivers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8RRE2rDw4k. I'd move to Amsterdam right now if I could.
Road building is essentially a ponzi scheme and we continue to build every housing development their own interchange ("if you come, they will build it."). We let development drive transportation infrastructure when it should have been the other way around.
Electric vehicles are not meant to save the world but the auto industry. At best, they're the answer to "how the richest among us travel without resorting to public transit or carpooling for a bit longer." As mentioned above, the development of batteries also taps finite resources (with human rights issues that make the oil industry look like summer camp). And the best part:Electric cars release MORE toxic emissions than gas-powered vehicles and are worse for the environment, resurfaced study warns
https://safety21.cmu.edu/2024/03/06/electric-cars-release-more-toxic-emissions-than-gas-powered-vehicles-and-are-worse-for-the-environment-resurfaced-study-warns/
I'm reminded of an exchange on another (sports-related of all things) board I was on asking people if they preferred cities or suburbs. One response was "Suburbs all the way." Among his reasons was "don't want to be a slave to the bus driver. He later mentioned that his commute was 30 to 60 minutes, depending on traffic. I guess we're all a slave to something...0 -
Waiting for the EO making it illegal to trade in a Tesla
Owner of a Golden Tesla Cybertruck Says He Can No Longer Handle the Constant Harasment. He Adds, “I Tried to Trade in the Cybertruck, but Tesla Won’t Accept It”
https://www.torquenews.com/11826/owner-golden-tesla-cybertruck-says-he-can-no-longer-handle-constant-harasment-he-adds-i-tried
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Tim Simmons said:More walkable cities would be great. that combined with current rail and public transport are probably the best solutions (re doing US rail is probably unworkable at this point). But people aren't gonna give up their cars and electric and its baggage is probably the least bad tradeoff to oil.0
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HughFreakingDillon said:Tim Simmons said:More walkable cities would be great. that combined with current rail and public transport are probably the best solutions (re doing US rail is probably unworkable at this point). But people aren't gonna give up their cars and electric and its baggage is probably the least bad tradeoff to oil.
Now we really can't have freedom if we don't spend copious amounts of time in our cars? I'm an incredibly cynical guy and I'd never have been able to conjure up this narrative.Post edited by OnWis97 on1995 Milwaukee 1998 Alpine, Alpine 2003 Albany, Boston, Boston, Boston 2004 Boston, Boston 2006 Hartford, St. Paul (Petty), St. Paul (Petty) 2011 Alpine, Alpine
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2024 Napa, Wrigley, Wrigley0 -
OnWis97 said:HughFreakingDillon said:Tim Simmons said:More walkable cities would be great. that combined with current rail and public transport are probably the best solutions (re doing US rail is probably unworkable at this point). But people aren't gonna give up their cars and electric and its baggage is probably the least bad tradeoff to oil.
Now we really can't have freedom if we don't spend copious amounts of time in our cars? I'm an incredibly cynical guy and I'd never have been able to conjure up this narrative.Hugh Freaking Dillon is currently out of the office, returning sometime in the fall0 -
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Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '140 -
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Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '140 -
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Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '140 -
mickeyrat said:09/15/1998 & 09/16/1998, Mansfield, MA; 08/29/00 08/30/00, Mansfield, MA; 07/02/03, 07/03/03, Mansfield, MA; 09/28/04, 09/29/04, Boston, MA; 09/22/05, Halifax, NS; 05/24/06, 05/25/06, Boston, MA; 07/22/06, 07/23/06, Gorge, WA; 06/27/2008, Hartford; 06/28/08, 06/30/08, Mansfield; 08/18/2009, O2, London, UK; 10/30/09, 10/31/09, Philadelphia, PA; 05/15/10, Hartford, CT; 05/17/10, Boston, MA; 05/20/10, 05/21/10, NY, NY; 06/22/10, Dublin, IRE; 06/23/10, Northern Ireland; 09/03/11, 09/04/11, Alpine Valley, WI; 09/11/11, 09/12/11, Toronto, Ont; 09/14/11, Ottawa, Ont; 09/15/11, Hamilton, Ont; 07/02/2012, Prague, Czech Republic; 07/04/2012 & 07/05/2012, Berlin, Germany; 07/07/2012, Stockholm, Sweden; 09/30/2012, Missoula, MT; 07/16/2013, London, Ont; 07/19/2013, Chicago, IL; 10/15/2013 & 10/16/2013, Worcester, MA; 10/21/2013 & 10/22/2013, Philadelphia, PA; 10/25/2013, Hartford, CT; 11/29/2013, Portland, OR; 11/30/2013, Spokane, WA; 12/04/2013, Vancouver, BC; 12/06/2013, Seattle, WA; 10/03/2014, St. Louis. MO; 10/22/2014, Denver, CO; 10/26/2015, New York, NY; 04/23/2016, New Orleans, LA; 04/28/2016 & 04/29/2016, Philadelphia, PA; 05/01/2016 & 05/02/2016, New York, NY; 05/08/2016, Ottawa, Ont.; 05/10/2016 & 05/12/2016, Toronto, Ont.; 08/05/2016 & 08/07/2016, Boston, MA; 08/20/2016 & 08/22/2016, Chicago, IL; 07/01/2018, Prague, Czech Republic; 07/03/2018, Krakow, Poland; 07/05/2018, Berlin, Germany; 09/02/2018 & 09/04/2018, Boston, MA; 09/08/2022, Toronto, Ont; 09/11/2022, New York, NY; 09/14/2022, Camden, NJ; 09/02/2023, St. Paul, MN; 05/04/2024 & 05/06/2024, Vancouver, BC; 05/10/2024, Portland, OR;
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LOLRemember the Thomas Nine !! (10/02/2018)
The Golden Age is 2 months away. And guess what….. you’re gonna love it! (teskeinc 11.19.24)
1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
2013: London ON, Wrigley; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana; 2025: Pitt1, Pitt20 -
Gern Blansten said:
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so essentially musk paid trump $10m for a jobHugh Freaking Dillon is currently out of the office, returning sometime in the fall0
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HughFreakingDillon said:so essentially musk paid trump $10m for a job
10 million in fucksticks pocket and 290 million to elect fuckstick for his own benefit. all the firings are in depts that had a handin investigations into his business dealings with the government.
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Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '140 -
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Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '140
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