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

submitted 9 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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[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 15 points 8 hours ago

distinctly remembering being stuck on an ICE waggon where the AC was broken, the conductor coming in and telling us we have to move out of there due to passenger safety (which no one did) followed by an announcement to please stop moving around the train as it's full everywhere