It’s been said many times already but cities really need to get their public transit in order so they can fix traffic congestation and improve the lives of their residents but I still have some questions about some ideas I had.

  1. How much would it cost for a city to electrify their entire bus fleet? Yes, people taking the bus is still a good thing but a lot buses still run on some fossil fuel.

  2. How much would it cost a city with no rail/metro infrastructure to create it from scratch?

  • Venator@lemmy.nzEnglish
    1·
    17 days ago

    Note that buses do last a lot longer than 8 years, some of the ones in NZ were probably imported second hand from Germany 😅

    • optional@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      17 days ago

      If the average bus is 8 years old, that means that buses are replaced approximately after 16 years. According to this source, the average bus in New Zealand is more like 16 years old, so they’re actually running for 32 years 😱

      • Venator@lemmy.nzEnglish
        2·
        17 days ago

        In nz they import quite a few of them second hand, so the median bus age will be closer to the average here.

        But yeah they might last a bit longer here too if they’re putting less mileage on them as our busses are not very frequent…