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Funny story, the works department at a local college ended up buying one of these all electric vans thinking it would be great. Until someone drove it and didnt figure out the mileage in their head and it died a block away from their distribution center. It took a small generator and a plug in to get it up and running again. As they say, heres your sign.
Induced demand means building more roads doesn't reduce congestion. That's why it's not done. Also, if you're talking large cities where most of this congestion is, there isn't physically room to build more roads anyway, short of double or triple stacking them. That would be horrendously expensive.
My prediction is, the corrupt individuals running the MTA will shove most of it in their pockets; and then swear they need MORE money!
Sadly, family obligations keep me here in this City-sized lunatic asylum. Otherwise I'd happily move to Ohio to live with my best friend of 35 years. Cleveland is smaller than NYC. But has impressive attractions. They're just packed in tighter compared to NYC. There's also Columbus which is surprisingly nice. If I want to feel like I'm back in NYC, there's Cincinnati. Where the locals have the same obnoxious attitude all too common here.
A lot of people are getting tired of the war against people by the oil and car companies. Pedestrian deaths in the US have been increasing to a 30 year high. More than half the real estate in cities is taken up by parking. Our foreign policy and military spending is built around oil but I never see that cost factored into the cost per mile for oil powered transportation.
That and Opium are a real issue here. One of my friends that I grew up with got addicted to methamphetamines and turned to a life of crime. At some point he started doing home invasions and was trying to rob a mother at gun point. She wouldn't give up her purse so he beat her in front of her child. All to feed his addiction. I think they should take the addicts and burn them to death in cages but instead the police keep them on the streets even though they have no usable skills, rob the working class, and drain limited resources.
Yes, exactly. Oil-based transportation has a load of externalities not charged to the end user. We all still pay for them one way or another. Some studies I've read put the total cost as high as $10 per gallon.
You should see the electric line trucks. They are insane heavy
Honestly, if those weight differences cause a structure to fail, then it was marginal to start with. Most good engineers design structures to handle at least 2 or 3 times the maximum load they'll ever see in real life. I think the live load factored into the design of the GWB was 8,000 lbs per foot. Per lane, that's 1,000 lbs per foot. There's a huge safety margin, even with bumper to bumper Teslas.
Live load. Not sure of the figure for static load but keep in mind "worst case" for bridges is actually a crowd of pedestrians crossing. Think how many people can stand in the space one car takes up in a regular 11 foot wide lane. Maybe 4 or 5 across and at least 10 or 12 deep. Easily 50 people, if not more. If they average 150 pounds each, that's 7,500 pounds. When walking live load is much higher than static load. For vehicles there's not much difference between the two.
They don't neglect it. Unfortunately, batteries weigh what they weigh, and the market demands a certain amount of range. I think we're at roughly 200 Wh/kg at the pack level for EV batteries. The average EV uses about 350 Wh per mile. So each additional mile of range adds around 1.75 kg (a little under 4 pounds) to the weight.
True but people walking that dense is not happening, even when we walked over Manhattan bridge on 9/11 we were not that close to each other, was not a dense crowd at all
I would not shed a tear if 2-stroke engines were phased out for lawn maintenance operations in the city. Quite the opposite in fact.
