The money wasted in electric car subsidies is much better spent on mass transit and cycling and pedestrianization initiatives, all of which move far more people at much less cost per person. Electric cars are being posited as the solution (as opposed to drastically improved mass transit) because that’s the only way auto companies can stay relevant and maintain their supremacy

I think the confusion stems from the fact that the actual vehicle that the Brisbane Metro rolling stock is based on is also called a Hess LighTram. There’s a good chance that this is also going to end up just being a BRT like the Brisbane Metro, or (maybe) an adapted guided bus system. We’ll have to see, it’s still extremely early days for this project. Honestly I’m just glad they’re considering something like this, we have precious few modernized transit options in any of our cities.

I’m on the web interface so I do actually see the headline in the body (plus the beginning of the article itself), but I think maybe it doesn’t show up on other clients?

Oh, my bad – I thought the headline showed up in the post too!

I live in Mumbai – while the commuter trains have lots of room for improvement, they do run at ~3 minute headway for most of the day, and that’s on tracks shared with the national rail network. I’d expect a metro system with its own dedicated tracks to be able to do even better, at least at peak hours.

Just to be clear, I’m not complaining – 5 minutes is pretty great, and the Mumbai Metro system (separate from the commuter trains) is also worse at about ~6 minutes – but even so, I was hoping this system might be able to achieve times like the Paris or Moscow Metro

I think the point being made is that having to drive everywhere makes people even less kind than they usually are, as borne out by road rage incidents

This is Line 2A on the Mumbai Metro. The train sets were built locally by BEML, but Alstom supplies the signaling infrastructure.

I should also mention that only two of the four operational metro lines in Mumbai currently have bike infrastructure. It’s pretty annoying