Solarpunk Travel

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Community for those focused on sustainable travel. Our society's current levels of energy intensive and frequent travel are not compatible with life on a finite planet. We advocate for long-term slow travel to see the world, and low energy local travel to deeply experience your community. Green washing free zone.

related to sustainable travel:

!trains@midwest.social ← open to all train chatter (but note the instance is centered on the midwest USA)
!rail@feddit.uk ← UK Rail and Trains
!ukpublictransport@feddit.uk ← UK public transport

related to travel generally:

!travel@eviltoast.org ← general travel
!main@lemmy.globe.pub ← general travel (this whole instance devoted to travel but note there is an instance-wide no politics rule there)
!traveltips@feddit.uk ← Europe focus

The communities listed above are decentralized. Centralized instances are omitted as they go against the fedi purpose and it’s better to cultivate digital rights in the free world. That means instances that have a disproportionately large population or are centralized on Cloudflare are not listed.

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Could Better Buses Fix Your Commute? A cheaper, faster and more equitable approach to transit could be a path to progress in the U.S. (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 11 months ago by silence7 to c/solarpunktravel

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[–] activistPnk 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Separate traffic signals prioritize buses, which eliminates lingering at red lights.

Will be fun to see a chain of cars tailgating a bus with autopilot enabled. Or are self-driving smart enough to stay out of the bus lanes?

But the city is using B.R.T. to speed up congested corridors and make bus riders feel prioritized.

I will love it when Elon is sitting in traffic in his Tesla as a prioritized busload of lower-income commuters flies past him faster than the passengers can notice Musk and whip out their middle fingers. Although I guess the day will come when the buses are made by Tesla.