mondoman712

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[–] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I read another comment somewhere that pointed out that all of the other things they sponsor are much more relevant to them, e.g OS and hardware projects and events. It's weird that there's just the one that's focused on web development and it's the one run by DHH.

[–] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Note that Framework is not currently sponsoring Omarchy

They do have Rails World on their list, which is an event run by DHH

[–] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The European Rail Passengers Union recently started and is looking to advocate for solutions to some of these issues.

[–] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They could've instead free up a lot of space at the existing airports by finally building that high speed rail line between Melbourne and Sydney that they've been talking about for 30 years.

[–] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Again, it doesn't have to be more difficult, if most people don't own a car there will be a lot more demand for public transport, and the services can be expanded to accommodate this much more easily. I can go hiking and usually not worry about getting home because the trains are hourly at the worst and connections are easy. It's only more difficult because we've built a world around making things as convenient as possible for cars.

[–] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Flat terrain makes it much easier to build fast rail. If there's another city on the way you could have a high speed rail connection, or a sleeper train.

[–] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

I live in Switzerland, and I go hiking almost every weekend without using a car. There's plenty of places to do so accessable by public transport, and still the vast majority of journeys here are done by car. If even a quarter of those car journeys were instead taken by public transport, that would mean a doubling of public transport usage and justify huge expansions. That's with Switzerland's already comparatively high public transport usage, elsewhere the shift from cars wouldn't need to be as large to multiply public transport usage.

[–] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you're at the point of worrying about how much wear on the roads your buses are doing, it's time to lay down some rails.

Where do you live that actually taxes fuel enough to cover the entire cost of the externalities of cars? A study shows it doesn't in Massachusets, and this shows it doesn't in Europe

[–] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lots of people in this thread seem to be missing this. With no cars it makes sense to build a lot more public transport, cycling is suddenly nice and safe, and car oriented places don't make any sense to build anymore.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31690556

I thought this was quite a nice piece about OSM and the humanitarian mapping team.

 

I thought this was quite a nice piece about OSM and the humanitarian mapping team.

 

cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/micromobility@lemmy.world/t/2141355

Greater Manchester Police insists "thorough investigation" conducted, but cyclist left questioning lack of prosecution for motorist who cut corner at junction, knocking her off bike, before leaving victim injured in the road

 

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/19445558

The California DMV routinely allows dangerous drivers with horrifying histories to continue to operate on our roadways. Too often they go on to kill. Many keep driving even after they kill. Some go on to kill again.

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