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Bruce Sterling @bruces
Bc Clarity Carlton-Martin@bruces Ulysses Dublin was peak urban transit #NoMotorCars
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There is no trolley. We killed it in the 20th century in favour of automobile dependent suburban sprawl :(
[Background is the trolly tracks fork with person, but no trolley, no people and no switch.]
João Tiago Rebelo@encthenet @bruces godsend. Thank you!
0xC0DEC0DE07EA@bruces there are now millions of cars, they kill more than 40,000 people yearly in America. Good luck stopping them.
Avocado Toast@bruces both rail lines have been paved over and now there's just people getting run over by people driving while looking at their phones
LisPi@avocado_toast @bruces Don't worry, plenty of drivers will just go right onto the sidewalk by driving when looking at their own phone instead.
DuncanWatson@bruces
An interesting point is that they removed trolley's from all the small towns that are now suburbs too.
An interesting point is that they removed trolley's from all the small towns that are now suburbs too.
obscurestar@bruces I want to make a better graphic for this. A cobweb covered trolley on a siding and a line of cars headed towards the people tied to the highway.
Lelani CarverI bet this is decorated for the first day of spring - and Seattle has come back to the idea of urban rail. Wish I still lived there.
Jargoggles@bruces Now, tens of thousands of people die every year in car crashes. We could reduce this number by investing in public transit and lessening our reliance on cars, but executives in the automobile and oil industries wouldn't grow their grotesque hordes of money quite as fast as they do now. Quite the conundrum.
f00f/eris/continuum/etc@bruces also, the replacements kill hundreds every day
Venty 🇨🇭🫕
Stephen Cerruti@bruces Yet in the age of reenforcement learning based self driving cars it's ironic that the trolley problem has possibly never been more relevant.
Jon@bruces There you go. Trolley Problem solved. Permanently. No one died.
Elfbiter@bruces Well, my home city just built new ones and plans to expand the network.
🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑@bruces Nobody's gonna drive this lousy freeway when they can take the Red Car for a nickel.
🍁Maple🍁*Laughs in San Diego Public Transit*
rrogers@bruces
I heard that the auto companies (re ford?) bought up the trolleys (privatization) and shut them down. Is that true? Do I have to do research? :)
Still trudging through Choke Point; oh such a load of fun. I almost got through 3 pages last night, and turned to SciFi :) Aliens are much more entertaining than the monsters that "work the system" around us.
I heard that the auto companies (re ford?) bought up the trolleys (privatization) and shut them down. Is that true? Do I have to do research? :)
Still trudging through Choke Point; oh such a load of fun. I almost got through 3 pages last night, and turned to SciFi :) Aliens are much more entertaining than the monsters that "work the system" around us.
Dan Yeaw
Mori Bat@bruces how dare you question the existence of Rice-a-Roni
Andrew Jon Thomson@bruces Now that’s what I call a trolley problem.
ariadne@bruces fortunately there still are trolleys in my city (and somehow there are no collisions between trams, pedestrians, cars, and bicycles; eScooters pose the only real threat nowadays). Also where I used to live (Leipzig) there is an extensive tram network too.
WndlB@bruces Oh, and what is called 'light rail' today is a yugely costly farce. Those were light rail.
GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)@bruces image description: There is no trolley. We killed it in the 20th century in favour of automobile dependent suburban sprawl :(