Newer, fewer, but also smaller.Modern cars are just objectively badly designed, they're the result of companies vomiting features and "safety" onto the chassis for decades and never removing anything.
Here are some examples of smaller cars, which basically 99% of people would switch to without sacrificing anything.
so are you wilfully ignoring the obvious fact that this depends on the actual weight of the vehicle, or are you just posting despite not knowing what you're talking about?
There's a very very easy solution to this: Make the cars smaller and lighter. There's no reason to make cars with 400km of range, it's utterly insane.If we just change the default design of electric cars from "4 seats plus a huge trunk" to "2 dedicated seats plus 2 seats that can fold down", then the weight issue is more than negated.
you know what's funny? i never hear this talked about in places with good public transport, it's only ever brought up in places that can't seem to figure out how to run more than 2 buses.
Less snarkily: This is a made up problem to justify bad public transport. There are multiple very obvious solutions, among which a very popular one is "Just fucking run a bunch of buses, genius"
okay so i don't want to be mean, but do you really think this is just a universal thing that can never change?
Like i don't understand what the point of your comment is, yeah the buses suck now but how the fuck does that imply cars are neccesary? Isn't it incredibly obvious that cars would become optional if they just ran more buses??
i used to drink some cough medicine or something as a kid, and that is precisely what i imagine potions would taste like. Just bordering on actively being gross, but not actually disgusting, just utterly overwhelming so you down it in one big gulp and then shake your head like a wet dog. And ontop of that they shove in licorice or whatever so your taste buds are just left horribly confused.
i find swedish healthcare really is the precise opposite of american healthcare, because the american standard seems to be having a dedicated personal doctor whom you can just go to with whatever minor ailment and regular checkups.
But here it costs like 20€ for a visit to the clinic where you meet whatever worker has time at the moment.. Even if all you're doing is getting a super simple hearing test, which literally consists of listening to a pair of headphones and pressing a button when you hear the tone..
you mean.. sidewalks? because those are very clearly sidewalks; as they are narrow, made of concrete, and there's absolutely no sign that bikes are allowed or were considered in the design.
I mean just look at the crossings, those are explicitly pedestrian crossings lol.
not bike lanes, bike paths. Lane implies it's on the road and not significantly separated from cars, whereas path implies it's properly separated either by height or by distance.
as a swede (and sweden isn't exactly renowned for our amazing bike infrastructure), this would only barely register as somewhere bikes are allowed to go, and only because of the bike racks.
It needs to be like 50% wider and actually be signed for bicycles, plus the seams in the concrete really imply this isn't somewhere you're supposed to use wheeled vehicles.
no, it lacks protected bicycle paths. Bike lanes are only acceptable on car-free streets (separating bikes and mopeds from pedestrians) or on rural roads with very low traffic.
honestly i'd go further, and say it's "now designed".What was there previously wasn't a design, it was the equivalent of leaving all your dirty dishes in the sink and telling yourself you'll take care of it some day.
mixing bicycles and pedestrians is perfectly fine, you only get problems when people don't have anywhere to bike quickly.
Most cyclists are happy to go 15km/h or slower, which works flawlessly with pedestrians so long as volumes of either aren't huge. But there's always some percentage of cyclists who want/need to go 20+km/h, which is only acceptable if there's barely any traffic at all.
Frankly it can be really nice to mix slow cyclists and pedestrians, because it means more opportunity for people to talk to each other. I have several times met people i know while on my bike, and because my city at most separates cyclists from pedestrians with paint it means i can just stop and have a chat with them, it just feels nice.
i feel like this was either made by a fahrenheit user, or a nothern canadian. 0°C isn't "fairly cold", it's freezing! 10°C is "fairly cold".