Dortmunds new trams were intentionally bought without AC (www1.wdr.de)

submitted 7 hours ago by 7bicycles@hexbear.net to c/urbanism@hexbear.net

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The funniest argument and the reason I share this is that since the utilities company that provides the tram service has a ratified goal of becoming CO2-Neutral eventually, they've elected to not buy ACs since they'd consume about 7 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year and ACs aren't sustainable. I assume the 50°C tram is gonna be a big hit as per transportation in the upcoming summers.

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[-] SerialExperimentsGay@hexbear.net 52 points 7 hours ago

this is a reduction of comfort, i do not want to minimize that

MFer the heat has already killed 10,000 people in Germany this summer, if you call this "Komforteinbuße" you are already minimizing that you are cooking at risk groups and accept that they may collapse from the heat on your trains.

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 29 points 6 hours ago

The state of Nordrhein-Westfalen, which is where Dortmund is located, has already solved this in the heatwave about a month back: due to passenger safety concerns they've simply suspended all regional trains. Like all of them. Wasn't a train going anymore for a day or so. I think this was mostly based on if people collapse on the trains that's a them problem, if people don't have trains to get on and therefore collapse somewhere in a podunk NRW town that has no shades or benches or anywhere to get water at the train station, it's not