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[-] dumnezero@piefed.social 2 points 4 hours ago

Link to study?

[-] moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

The City of Montreal currently has the goal of reaching a 75 per cent active mode share, including cycling, walking and public transit, by 2050.

“In order to achieve that level of public transportation use, we need a lot more than just densifying around public transportation,” Roncace said. “We also need to discourage car use...

Translation: fuck cars

The only hostile infrastructure that I support is roads that permit cars, but makes them intentionally slower than the public transportation that they have to see running faster in the next lane over

[-] jtrek@startrek.website 5 points 7 hours ago

Seems obvious, but I guess it's good to have more support.

[-] alexquiniou@lemmy.zip 20 points 10 hours ago

No shit sherlock. Now build more public transport.

[-] moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Also makes a hell of a lot more sense to build gtid-tied electric busses and trains than electric cars full of heavy batteries ffs

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 4 points 7 hours ago

Duck Ford (yes, I know, he isn't in Montreal) and the like don't care and don't read this.

[-] TheFrirish@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 2 points 7 hours ago
[-] Ooops@feddit.org 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Economic benefits for whom? I'm pretty sure politicians don't economically benefit for pushing public transport against the wishes of the car and fossil fuel lobbyist owning them. And it gets even better (for their personal calculation that is...) when you realize it isn't their money they are spending anyway.

[-] lntl@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 hours ago

Ferda jerbs!

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