That's a good idea, I might investigate those archives if they're available.

It's so strange that no one in other local governments could ever envision monopolies forming over something like a bus service (where bus routes are limited anyway).

I wonder what made only Nottingham have the long term vision to do this unlike other local governments. Do you know what the residents' reaction to this news was when they did it?

Your comment reads as if Israel continuing to starve Palestinians was absolutely unavoidable since 1947.

I'm not sure about the economic models of how such cities work, but Manchester and Nottingham have very competent rail/ tram services and public transport. I'm also pretty sure Nottingham also offers free travel to students.

Fair. I have to visit there one time to get a good idea of it.

god i wish this was me

This is interesting. I was talking to someone who studies in Sheffield and they said it's a terrible city for public transport

The problem with this though is if a town/ city can afford a tram network but chooses not to in order to cut corners for upfront costs, it shows a lack of commitment. The wrong government/ council comes into power and a BRT us getting rolled back straight away for car centric infrastructure again.

Fantastic. So a nice small town can really rely on well planned out bike paths with a good tram network if they can afford the upfront costs. If not, then a BRT system or similar with separated bus lanes would be the next best thing, making sure that these "mid" to "short" distance forms of transports linl well with the town's train station(s).

Thanks

I wouldn't call Birmingham a small city haha, but thanks for this!

Edit: I am an idiot, I get what the link means by "Birmingham is a small city" after taking 5 mins to read.

Edit 2: Just taken some more time to read this and it's gold, thanks for sharing. Really informative.

Sure. Some cities where I come from where trams exists have roads that have tram tracks in the middle of them. As others have alluded to this is probably rare - I don't really know as the last time I took a tram I was too young to remember it and I live in a town that has no trams at all.

Because of my experience with seeing tram tracks on roads I assumed they shared significant parts of their journey with road cars which made me think they're subject to traffic jams.

Yeah this makes sense. I come from a country that doesn't have many trams and when I do see them they tend to be interacting with the road which is probably where my perception comes from.

Thank you

Thank you

Thanks for the info I wanted to access the article but it's blocked by a paywall/ email submission to view which I'm not too keen on doing. I know Israel had funded Hamas to maintain its own status quo many years ago but wasn't privy to the possibility it may still be happening. Was wondering if you had any other sources on this?

Desire for Palestinian liberation can never be centrist, sorry.

I don't support Hamas just like you don't. I don't support the death of civilians, Israeli or Palestinian. What I have a problem with in the general sentiment of this thread is people acting as if the Israeli government's actions are not the cause of this war. Hamas would not exist if the Israeli government never oppressed Palestinian people first. The PLO wouldn't exist if the Israeli government didn't oppress Palestinian people first. Hamas killing innocent civilians wouldn't have happened if the Israeli govrnement never tried to genocide Palestinians. You can argue that Hamas would commit genocide if they could, but the fact is Israel is the one commiting genocide at the moment. Making out as if both need equal condemning (although they need condemning nonetheless) is equivalent to giving a bully the same punishment as the victim who fights back. They are simply not the same.

Fuck Hamas and fuck Israel. But especially fuck Israel.

If a 16th century Native American wanted to destroy the government of the United States of America, would you say they were wrong?

Hamas' blatant anti-semitism towards all ethnic jews is wrong. Hamas' desire for Israel to not be a nation anymore is justified.

It's conversations like this that confuse me because who exactly is commiting genocide? I'm calling the take centrist because you're making out as if both sides are guilty of genocide when it literally is only one side (the government of Israel, the organisation that the original post refers to). It is a false equivalence. But if you think by me stating support for the liberation of indigenous Palestinians is making it a team sport where I'm somehow trivializing genocide then so be it, that's what you think.

I bet you feel enlightened with your centrist take.

I don't know if you realise but people can acknowledge that Hamas did bad things to civilians as well as Israel. The difference is some people can also acknowledge that the only reason Hamas exists is because Israel is a settler colonial state. Without Israel's crimes against humanity, there would be no need for Hamas to exist. People also have the ability to recognise the western media's attempt to falsely equivocate "both sides" when one is a genocidal attempt at an ethnostate backed by the most powerful nation the world has ever seen (and friends) and the other is a reaction to this.

“For forty years you try to strangle us. And then you criticize us for the way we breathe” ~ Fidel Castro.

good idea, thanks

This is a feasible goal I can work towards, thanks

I would love to attend local meetings but there are no meetings with public transport on the agenda on their schedul AT ALL. It seems like I would have to shoehorn public transit in which could potentially alienate the cause. I'm also not sure if I really know enough about the implementation of public transport - if I'm met with pushback I can't deal with I'm not sure if the cause will survive.

I agree with you, it's just how to campaign for it. When most people in the UK hear bike lanes they just switch off - people hate hobby cyclists in this country and they tend to associate anything to do with bikes with them.

stupid homeless people, why don't they just buy a house lol

Do you have any ideas on how to find likeminded people in the community? It seems everyone I talk to isn't that passionate about public transport

We don't have one but I'm open to starting one

40,000 people

idk if i'm missing something but i use connect and this is what it does on the "communities" tab

Gets easier after day 7 trust me

This comment is ironic because most of the time that music isn't even written for you.

Nice tap dancing.

Why didn't this happen in 2021 despite faster cars? Weren't the tires similar then?

It is okay if there is a non teratogenic alternative that treats the targeted disease. Why risk teratogenicity when you can altogether avoid it?

Exactly. It's not a "where do we draw the line" thing here, the line is already drawn as you allude to. It's not just CT scans as well, some actual medications need pregnancy tests or at least active contraception use. Roaccutane, methotrexate and other DMARDs etc - everything in medicine is a risk vs reward thing and I'm sure many patient would prefer not to be on a drug that messes up their fetus whether they're planning to keep it or not in the case they get pregnant. You'd rather just avoid the risk of that situation occuring altogether.

Yup. Common practive with anti-epileptics - some have worse implications for babies than others which is why those said others are used first.

Liberals and leftists exist elsewhere outside America. There is nothing about the original post that yells exclusivity to America.

Everything has something to do with politics. People saying "stop shoving politics into everything" just don't like to he confronted with that fact, when some people are forced to confront that fact outside of political discourse every day. There are literally billions of people in poverty around the world due to the direct actions of some of the most powerful governments the world has ever seen. But you and a few people could not possibly even bear seeing a meme talking about Leftists and Liberals because that's too political hahaha what the fuck.

I find posts like this so confusing. Does politics, i.e.the policies organisations across the world implement to actively change the way the masses live not directly or indirectly affect your life? Whenever someone says something like this I just assume you're not within a marginalised group because there's no way you'd make an enlightened centrist post like this otherwise.

Collectivist =/= Communist, I am tired or arguing with Red Scare Americans who do not understand what Communism even is, nor understand the fact that a government that implements mass privatisation that the Nazis put in place is the exact opposite of communism. Fuck me.