Plumbers don’t carry massive heavy plant. But I know you were just picking a concrete example of a business there so let’s not dwell on that particular case. The real point is that if a business causes damage to the roads that has to be repaired, it should contribute an appropriate amount. If that makes the cost of doing business more expensive, that just has to get passed on to the customer - who, ultimately, is the one having the heavy stuff transported
Here in the UK, I’ve seen bloody sushi restaurants and hairdressers drive branded pickup trucks FFS. No tax exemptions for businesses. As another poster noted, the damage is being done and needs to be paid for - it doesn’t magically not matter because it was done in the course of somebody using the road for their business
2 and 3 are massive. I’m on Mastodon, but am having a much better time on Bluesky. Mastodon is full of gatekeeping and policing and people complaining - Bluesky is just fun and interesting, like Twitter 12 years ago
I know. But I was satirising GPT’s bland writing style, not providing facts
“Shits are frequently classified into three basic types…” and then gives 5 paragraphs of bland guff
I totally understand why you say this. But at the same time:
Be a politician
Do the right thing and invest billions in an amazing public transport system knowing it won’t be used properly until much later
Lose your job for wasting billions on a system nobody uses. Ensure that every other politician in the world cannot henceforth invest in public transport because “Look what happened when that other guy tried it”.
There is no Step 4
People are in engrained car habits. That’s why alternatives to driving are important, but people are unlikely to switch unless we ALSO make driving less appealing
3 dB is a doubling/having of sound pressure, so 3.5 is not nothing
Important to know that real-world testing shows that PHEVs are rarely plugged in and just burn oil much of the time
Except people don’t plug in their hybrids and run them on fossil fuels. Hybrids are yet another way the FF industry keeps itself going while pretending things are being fixed
People need to hire vehicles occasionally rather than buy more polluting vehicles against some rare edge case
Didn’t want to walk more than the absolute minimum distance, I suspect. And/or didn’t want their precious PCP baby out of their eyesight
Looks like the name stuck!
“Sunken land and dismal swamps” - what’s in that area now?
I’ll accept that the status quo might not support non-car travel. But this doesn’t mean it’s okay. What are people DOING about it? If they’re lobbying for change and pushing politicians, fine. But they’re not, are they? They’re buying pickup trucks
Yes, easy. (SUV MPG/car MPG) gives you the multiplier for how much more people are paying on every trip
It’s incredibly selective about which topics it’s good for. Want insight into advanced mathematics or new programming languages and people there have amazing insight. But they bring the same level of confidence to the discussion when talking about topics they’ve no idea about.
And as long as they don’t go and live miles from where they work and shop, then drive back and forth every day, putting the danger and pollution onto other people
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It would have a massive effect. Transport (car) emissions are one of the larger - and growing - sources of emissions.
And we can’t hide behind “But the corporations…” because ultimately what they produce gets used by us.
So to answer your question: riding a bike when Global Capital wants you to keep buying cars and pumping oil into them is one of the best acts of defiance you can make