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Stuttgart Stadtbahn Tram, Stuttgart, Germany (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by NarrativeBear to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is really cool. Here in Ottawa, Canada some buses have bike racks on the front. The driver waits while the rider loads or unloads their bike from the rack. I didn’t see it used much (haven’t taken public transit for years) but I think it’s a good idea.

[–] NickwithaC -2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Why don't they just... ride the bikes?

[–] Terces 23 points 4 months ago

This tram goes up a steep hill. On the ground you can see a third line of "tracks". Those a for a gear the tram uses to pull itself up the hill. It's the only one in Stuttgart that has that. Because that hill is so steep, they allow bikers to take their bike with them and because many use that offer, they added the extra bike carriage.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Too many dangerous, busy main roads with no bike lanes and no space for cyclists. It goes the cyclists the ability to ride distances, avoiding the impassible roads, to get to where they can ride.

[–] merari42 5 points 4 months ago

You can easily empty 100Wh of an E-Bike battery going up that hill. It is indeed very steep

[–] NarrativeBear 1 points 4 months ago

That's like saying "why don't you just swim across" instead of using the car ferry.