• BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net
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    4 months ago

    If you read my comment you’ll see I did read the whole thing.

    Busses are less efficient than trains no matter how you slice it. They sit in traffic just like cars, typically use gas or will need to sit and charge forever between uses, and can only hold x small number of people. With light rail, it can be electric much more easily, carry a ton more passengers, and uses dedicated tracks to avoid the congestion of traffic.

    Still a bad take.

    • nix@midwest.socialOP
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      4 months ago

      Oh I see. I took your first sentence as meaning you stopped a paragraph in.

      I agree that buses are less efficient, I think it’s the best argument for rail.

      I will point out, all of St. Louis’ new buses are electric.

    • awwwyissss@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      If they start using buses in mass transit I suspect they’ll have a method for quickly swapping batteries as needed.