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Canada sets sights on next plastic waste target: food packaging
(globalnews.ca)
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It's a radical take that has no political legs, but if you replaced every car seat with a bus seat in a major city it would just be awesome. No traffic, and no wait times (including unnecessary stops) because that's a lot of buses. Not to mention a fraction of the emissions.
A diesel bus runs 20-30 L/100km.
A Toyota Prius runs 5 L/100km.
Average car occupancy is 1.2 people.
Break even for a single bus is like 5 Priuses. So a city that has 500,000 car commuters a day would be carbon neutral to swap them with 100,000 busses.
That's a lot of bus routes for a city of a million+ people.
Or a town of 20,000 car commuters would be served with 4,000 bus routes. Not bad for a town under 100,000 people.
Thank you for doing the math!