• gammasfor@sh.itjust.works
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    3 years ago

    “Electric buses aren’t safe because the batteries can catch on fire”

    London here running hybrids for over half a decade with no issue.

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      3 years ago

      We USians are so hooked on, and controlled by, car infrastructure that we’ll come up with any lame ass excuse to undermine public transit. “Busses (or trains or any other form of public transit) aren’t perfect because of X, so we should just keep destroying our health, our communities and our planet”