this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2024
611 points (98.7% liked)

World News

38617 readers
2184 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I wish that cycling and public transport was funded as much as the roads and car industry. Fuckcars

It's mad to look at train lines that as being too expensive short term, yet it's a 150+ year investment, and has so many improvements, not least of which it increases the value of land around the station (something that isn't captured in most countries assessments of rail income, though is in Japan)

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Yes and I'm sure trains work out as the cheaper option when you look at the number of passengers they carry vs the upkeep vs building a new road every few years.