tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1828166865647185633.post453840331097567212..comments2024-03-17T09:15:16.095+00:00Comments on The Ranty Highwayman: The Amazing Electricity TrickeryThe Ranty Highwaymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17361350433158148025noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1828166865647185633.post-38873345497087012632016-08-15T12:36:44.072+01:002016-08-15T12:36:44.072+01:00Good thing my own city is looking at electric buse...Good thing my own city is looking at electric buses. I think they recently placed an order for a few dozen of the things. Combined with my provincial government's plan to shut down coal fired power plants and replace them with clean renewables, it should work quite well at solving our emissions problems for electricity and bus fuel prices. <br /><br />You are certainly right, electrics won't solve most of the problems with cars. It's a worthy goal to work alongside, but that can be covered with regulating the car dealers and what they are allowed to sell and with regulations on how old vans, lorries and taxis and the like can be. The public's money is better served by implementing Sustainable Safety on the roads, encouraging cycling, walking and transit use (transit by making the tube less stuffy, accessible and less noisy would be nice, and lower fares couldn't hurt, and on the surface by making buses have more dedicated lanes provided we aren't denying protected cycleways to cyclists, and priority at traffic signals (what signals would remain after a Sustainable Safety makeover), making the stops accessible and with those waiting time indicators and the buses being electrics, and more frequency and more direct routes couldn't hurt, cycling by adding sustainable safety to each one of our roads, more bike parking and providing subsidized omafietsen to people, and walking would barely need to be encouraged at all if Sustainable Safety was the reality on our roads, some PSAs would work well. <br /><br />That being said, it would be nice if local authorities and businesses had a system where deliveries were coordinated and combined so as to use fewer vehicles, that works quite well in Den Bosch and Utrecht. Multiparty Democracy Todayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13359081992141220593noreply@blogger.com