Electric cars are crucial, but not enough to solve climate change. We can’t let them crowd out car-free transit options.

TL;DR: Norway subsidised electric cars a lot, that money went to the rich more than the poor, and left them with less money to spend on transit which delivers better outcomes for cities.

  • LennethAegis@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    “Most Norwegian cities now have more of a car-centric, American approach toward transportation than a multi-modal, European one,”

    That’s a sad sentence to read, I always assumed Norway was like Sweden with amazing public transportation as well.

    • sparky@lemmy.federate.cc@lemmy.federate.cc
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      8 months ago

      I think this is a failure of imagination on the part of the author. Norway is, on a whole, much more rural; a large portion of the population lives in small towns and villages in areas with difficult terrain (think fjords), where public transport beyond a bus is impractical due to population densities.

      The public transport in Oslo and Bergen are fantastic - Norway’s only two large cities. Keeping in mind that over a quarter of the population of the entire country lives in these two, it’s not as bad as it sounds.