this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2024
61 points (98.4% liked)
urbanism
22449 readers
1 users here now
This was supposed to be c/traingang, so post as many train pictures as possible.
All about urbanism and transportation, including freight transportation.
Home of train gang
:arm-L::train-shining::arm-R:
Trainposts highly encouraged
Talk about supply chain issues here!
List of cool books and videos about urbanism, transit, and other cool things
Titles must be informative. Please do not title your post "lmao" or use the tired "_____ challenge" format.
Archive links for reactionary sites, including the BBC.
LANDLORDS COWER IN FEAR OF MAOTRAIN
"that train pic is too powerful lmao" - u/Cadende
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I think a lot of it is not well thought out. But on the other hand if we wanted these things to be good for the environment this isn't how we'd go about it. They're there to make money for the company, thats it, and some of them even fail at that. They're often more or comparably expensive to getting a "rideshare" in a car from a driver, which is insane.
I'm all about scooters and ebikes, they're no silver bullet but they're a hell of a lot better than electric cars... but there are a lot of companies doing their damndest to make the problems with them worse not better. At least they mostly seem to have swappable batteries now, and seem to be built a little sturdier. The companies that tried to do this with consumer grade scooters were throwing them out like every 30 goddamn days.