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Two photos of the same train driver, taken 26 years apart
(thelemmy.club)
The two trains pictured:
More info about (and photos of) the driver, Han Junjia:
A.K.A. where everybody but a negligible minority lives. Good for you for being a member of the rural exception, but it is way past time for us to stop paying inordinate attention and catering to you.
in my country, 45% of the population lives in rural places
i dont think almost half the population would count as negligible
To be clear, I am absolutely in favour of public transport in towns, cities, suburban area and everywhere around them that it can be reasonably spread to, and on routes between them. As you say, that'll cover the significant majority of the population, but we still need roads for things like last mile freight, and those of us who need to get places not served.
I lived in a major city for 20 years, and only bothered to get a car in the last few, when I had more need to travel to places outside the city, that weren't served.
strawman argument. No one has proposed removing all roads.
The comment I was replying to suggested stopping catering to rural populations. I was trying to respond to that, as having roads is one of the main ways of catering for them. I suppose they could be talking about this like subsidies to fossil fuels, but that doesn't really address the earlier assertion that EVs are a stop gap.