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The federal government is calling for input from grocers, food and beverage producers, provincial governments and the general population.

The federal government is calling for input from grocers, food and beverage producers, provincial governments and the general population.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
    3·
    1 year ago

    My friend, I think towns and cities shouldn’t have personal motor vehicles at all.

    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.

    • Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      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.