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Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads by quickthrower2 on Thursday December 07, 2023 @09:35PM (#38564723)
In Sydney it is one more tunnel! I am not against it as the infra could be used by an army of electric buses that could be a psuedo-metro. Please do that!
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Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads by rtpg on Thursday December 07, 2023 @09:55PM (#38564885)
Seriously, at least in France the big success story in my book has been the use of heavy-duty buses to expand transit networks. You just gotta take over existing lanes, and you make your main bus lanes have buses every 5 minutes or so. It's not ideal but it exists and works.

Highly recommend as an alternative to wishing for metro lines.

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Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads by quickthrower2 on Thursday December 07, 2023 @10:36PM (#38565146)
It is adaptive! You can change the routes based on demand or even time of day.
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Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads by jacquesm on Thursday December 07, 2023 @09:59PM (#38564927)
They did the same thing in Bogota, Colombia. Massive project but when I was there it seemed to have paid off very well.
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Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads by andyferris on Thursday December 07, 2023 @09:43PM (#38564787)
They kinda did that in Brissie!
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