Part of it is that the organisations that design and build roads are also the ones who assess whether a road is needed. No big surprise that they "forget" about induced demand
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My town does buses better than that, but peak hour buses get stuck in traffic
So times when it's a 20 minute drive, it's 30 or 40 minutes by bus, when the same drive is 45 minutes in slow traffic, the bus is not a lot worse, at 1 hr
Anyway the better solution has busses only as a last mile solution, with trunks covered by rail
If you design your cities well people live near the places which people want to visit, and pedestrian speed is fine
Lots of cities are well designed, though most that were so designed in the US got modified after cars became important
Suburban rail is heavier than trams, the London tube is suburban rail, as are Sydney trains
Another solution is mass transit. That right of way could support light rail and still have several car lanes in each direction
The light rail also gives work from home people a way to get to shops, shows, and sports without driving
Light rail also can be built to not get stuck in traffic, which makes it faster than driving too
If you want to also be pedantically technically correct, 9V batteries are often made from 6 AAAA cells. Most of the things people call battery are actually cells, the common batteries are 9V (6x1.5V cells) and 6V (4x1.5V cells) alkalines, 12V lead-acid (6x2V cells) and electric vehicle batteries (lots of 3-ish volt cells of various lithium technologies)
But she already has a perfectly good machine, is just super slow on the newest version of windows
Watch out if they have fingerprint login. Ubuntu, at least, doesn't unlock the user's keyring if they log in by fingerprint, and are quickly presented with a password prompt to unlock the keyring
I'm pretty sure the other states have similar incentives [as Adelaide!]
Now look up Victoria. They have an extra tax to stop EV owners from dodging the excise on petrol
Where I am we have free registration for two years and the ability to drive in HOV lanes, which is a couple of hundred dollars of benefit
Australia is a Federation. Each state, and to some extent the two mainland territories, sets its own rules to a large extent. We have no federal incentives on EVs
Nice of you to accuse me of lying without looking for more than 15 seconds, arsehole
know it's hard for the Tesla cultists to accept, rather like the Apple cultists before them, but Tesla products are not good products for the price.
Likewise, it must be hard for the Musk haters (and anti Apple people!) to accept it when Tesla (or Apple) make a good product at good value. I live in Australia and get no discount to the price of the car and call it good value.
The faces affect quite right
I mean we really don't need cities, just make hundred lane roads in their place