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mondoman712

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  • Trains Are Cleaner Than Planes, Right? The surprising carbon footprint of an Amtrak trip across America.

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  • Just to note, this doesn't apply to every journey, only the really long distance ones.

    Amtrak is still the more climate-friendly option for the vast majority of travelers, who on average travel 300 to 400 miles, said Olivia Irvin, a spokeswoman for the rail company. (That is, not many people are crazy enough to go cross-country by train.) A 2022 Department of Transportation study found that traveling by train from Los Angeles to San Diego generated less than half the emissions, per passenger, of flying, or driving. For Boston to New York, an electrified route, taking the train generated less than a fifth the emissions of flying or driving.

  • Cambodia getting a China-backed, game-changing canal

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  • I don't assume that, I'm just curious about it.

  • Cambodia getting a China-backed, game-changing canal

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  • Are they moving an amount beyond the capacity of a railway? And I would expect that the ocean vessels wouldn't be the same as the ones in the canal.

    Edit: From the article:

    Shipping containers from those ocean-going vessels would be transferred by cranes at Kep to and from canal barges.

  • Cambodia getting a China-backed, game-changing canal

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  • Why a canal? Why not just build a railway to the existing port?

  • Python tutorial moment

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  • How to make sure drivers will give way

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  • For carrying a brick?

  • MTA gives final approval for congestion pricing in NYC

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  • Driving in the city has an impact on city residents, and wasting people's time doesn't compensate those residents for that impact. The charge will help to fund the other measures that you mention.

  • Part 3 of the epic...

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  • He's a blue check. He gets paid for generating engagement.

  • MTA gives final approval for congestion pricing in NYC

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  • Congestion pricing has worked elsewhere, what's different about New York?

  • MTA gives final approval for congestion pricing in NYC

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  • The fact that it's become so normalised for drivers to impose themselves on city dwellers for free is what's crazy.

  • Is there any movie in which the actor naturally aged and portrayed the younger and older version of character ? Not a prequel sequel thing. One movie.

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  • Boyhood was shot over 12 years following the same cast.

  • Real-world CO2 emissions of cars are 20% higher than indicated. For plug-in hybrids they are 350% higher.

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  • With a quick google I've found that subsidies for plug in hybrids can be around €5,000, and yes I do believe that people would be lazy enough to not plug it in. I'm not sure how many dollars one would save by doing this in Europe anyway.

    But also, it's just a suggestion, I'm not asserting that this is definitely true.

  • What lesser known free and open source software do you use daily to improve your life?

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  • Paperless has taken me from various stacks of important documents strewn around my apartment, to having all of these things nicely organised and searchable.

  • Real-world CO2 emissions of cars are 20% higher than indicated. For plug-in hybrids they are 350% higher.

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  • It could be due to subsidies encouraging people to buy hybrids and people just ignoring the plug in feature. There's more discussion on this here

  • Real-world CO2 emissions of cars are 20% higher than indicated. For plug-in hybrids they are 350% higher.

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  • It means exactly what I think it means. The reported emissions are way off those that are actually achieved in real life.

    If we assume your assertion is actually correct (the study says nothing about the availability of charging infrastructure), how much do we need to build? And are we sure that once it is built, people will actually use it? Would it not be better to instead invest in infrastructure for other modes of transport that don't involve 2 tons of vehicle to transport one person?

  • Tools for collecting traffic data on my street?

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  • France: Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to massive investment and it's not stopping

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  • The big difference is the size of the administrative area. Paris is obviously a much larger city, but the mayor only controls about 100km2 containing 2 million people, whereas in Berlin the equivalent is almost 900km2 and 3.5 million people. So while Paris can focus heavily on the concerns of the people that actually love in the city and don't care much for those driving in, Berlin has to cater towards much more suburban interests.

  • What if the problem with cars was not their method of propulsion? Epthinktank | European Parliament

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  • Every car we have should be electric, but we need to have a lot fewer of them.

  • Amsterdam testing system that can remotely slow e-bikes down

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  • Switzerland had this up until 2012, when it was abolished because it cost more to administer than it was worth.