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The EU is investing in brilliant solutions to revolutionise sustainable commuting.
One of them is Monocab 🚆
A gyro-stabilised monorail cabin offers autonomous, on-demand transport.
It's designed to complement public transit by enhancing mobility in less populated areas and making your journey both planet-friendly and convenient. 🚆
Have you heard of any other innovative transport solutions?
📸©Monocab Owl
@EUCommission The most sustainable solution is called <train> and you’re letting EU member states let theirs decline so the service is worse every year (the perfect excuse to privatise them).
Stop wasting money on stupid, feel good “solutions”.
Not with my taxes.
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April Fool's Day? 🤔
@EUCommission yes, I have. Only recently:
1. Bicycles
2. Trams
3. Trolley buses
4. Hybrid trains
Do you happen to know what they have in common?
No? - Existing infrastructure.
Apropos infrastructure: to this day we have different gauges on main lines in #Europe. To change that doesn’t sound as glamorous as a monocabrailthing.
@EUCommission So train, but dumber? Are you seriously wasting our money like this?
Hello @Razemix, the unique approach of repurposing single-track rail infrastructure not only revitalises rural transport networks, it also connects people, improves quality of life, and fosters economic growth in these rural areas.
@EUCommission another techbro scam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJnyhPGH2cw
@EUCommission complement how? As a taxi? We have those.
@EUCommission
1. because humans are not yet lonely enough let's give each person their own private cabin.
2. Simpsons 🎵Monorail🎵
I have heard of the innovative transportation solution called "train".
@EUCommission nice! Mobile sex booths!
@EUCommission not sure if this account is run by the EU commission or just rage bait.
Mastodon users are thankfully not stupid enough to fall for microtransit, train reinvention etc.
@EUCommission
I'm so tired man
@EUCommission "gyro-stabilised monorail" ... WHY???
@EUCommission please you have to realize that this is pure scam aimed at diverting funds, efforts and focus away from actual public transportation initiatives and projects 🙏 I sure hope not a cent of public money went to such a wasteful endeavour...
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@EUCommission So I noticed this seems to be meant for about as many people as a car, but that it doesn't have the one actual benefit of a car because it's on rails. I can't imagine very many of these things can be deployed, otherwise they'd block the traffic of real trains and either hold up potentially thousands of people or millions of euros in cargo.
Wouldn't it just be easier to, I don't know, run a smaller train to those less populated areas? Just take the trains you already have and deploy them with less train cars? That's what Chicago did with the Yellow Line (which admittedly had other problems unrelated to this thread) and American cities are not exactly known for being better at rail infrastructure than literally any European city.