Carawou@lemmy.world to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agoA Tesla illegally parked in the Chicago Avenue bus lane at 5pm. Chicago, Illinois.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square27linkfedilinkarrow-up1308arrow-down19
arrow-up1299arrow-down1imageA Tesla illegally parked in the Chicago Avenue bus lane at 5pm. Chicago, Illinois.lemmy.worldCarawou@lemmy.world to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square27linkfedilink
minus-squareblarghly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 days agoI see this suggestion quite frequently and outside being a juvenile hot take, it is from a practical perspective, a terrible idea. Most obviously, colliding with other vehicles would make bus passengers experience far worse. There would be enourmous public backlash against the government regularly destroying private property like Mad Max. Busses aren’t designed to flip cars out of the way, and would suffer undue wear and tear, costing the city money. No space for a bike rack up front. Eventually a bus would flip a car out of the way onto the sidewalk, and it would roll over onto a pedestrian and kill them.
minus-squareRollade@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 days agoThen maybe a ramp that flips cars to the middle of the road and the passengers get better seats or some kind of Convair system that drags cars into a shredder
I see this suggestion quite frequently and outside being a juvenile hot take, it is from a practical perspective, a terrible idea.
Most obviously, colliding with other vehicles would make bus passengers experience far worse.
There would be enourmous public backlash against the government regularly destroying private property like Mad Max.
Busses aren’t designed to flip cars out of the way, and would suffer undue wear and tear, costing the city money.
No space for a bike rack up front.
Eventually a bus would flip a car out of the way onto the sidewalk, and it would roll over onto a pedestrian and kill them.
Then maybe a ramp that flips cars to the middle of the road and the passengers get better seats or some kind of Convair system that drags cars into a shredder