Car-hater Ben Furnas has been appointed to Mamdani’s transition team for transportation, climate and infrastructure – and his agenda is a nightmare for the city’s drivers.
the orders of magnitude reduction in kilometers driven would do a lot to reduce total pollution, the per-unit pollution doesn’t necessarily need to get better. if we really needed to, you could build a structure around the track and capture tire slough.
(this does not apply to gas cars, iirc you can map school performance against where race tracks are and there’s some dip from all the leaded gas)
Yeah I mean we also need to solve the tire problem more broadly, as there are certain things that are just not feasible to solve without last mile solutions that don’t involve some sort of tires. At least not currently. We could I guess go back to just spring suspension and wood/metal wheels but that is a loooong way off.
Just gotta solve the remaining issues with batteries and then the more insidious problem of tire dust.
the orders of magnitude reduction in kilometers driven would do a lot to reduce total pollution, the per-unit pollution doesn’t necessarily need to get better. if we really needed to, you could build a structure around the track and capture tire slough.
(this does not apply to gas cars, iirc you can map school performance against where race tracks are and there’s some dip from all the leaded gas)
Yeah I mean we also need to solve the tire problem more broadly, as there are certain things that are just not feasible to solve without last mile solutions that don’t involve some sort of tires. At least not currently. We could I guess go back to just spring suspension and wood/metal wheels but that is a loooong way off.