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An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that's the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.

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[-] hswolf@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

I'm all for efficient public transports in downtown, I use them daily myself, but people on suburbs won't really see a benefit to this.

On the other hand, just switching to electric is a nice start, otherwise we won't be able to live much longer.

[-] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 4 points 5 months ago

Especially people in suburbs would benefit from public transport and suburbs built for walk ability and cycling.

[-] hswolf@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

That's the problem, only switching the transportation method isn't enough, there's a whole infrastructure behind that needs to be built.

In most city centers you can kinda refurbish pre-existing systems, but in suburbs you need to build from scratch, and the distances are way bigger which imposes another challenge.

Don't get me wrong, im all for it, but we need to acknowledge these problems first.

[-] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 2 points 5 months ago

Correct. It can be done though. Getting stores and stuff into suburbs would help already, assuming we're talking us style ones.

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