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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[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 11 points 5 hours ago

This is unlocking memories of riding the school bus in the tropics. The school district was slowly upgrading the fleet to models that had A/C, and the first day riding on one of those on a sweltering September afternoon was like a revelation from God. Then late in the month, one of the old buses showed up, and we ended up riding that one for the rest of the semester. It's hard to put into words how resentful and discouraged everyone felt about that, it sucked so much more after we experienced what a bus ride with A/C felt like.