Interesting Links for 05-07-2020

[andrewducker]

Canadian scuba diver in Mexico discovers vast, prehistoric industrial complex

(tags:Mexico prehistory )

Keir Starmer faces backlash from Labour's ruling committee after party defends 'racist, sexist and abusive' WhatsApp messages

(tags:Labour OhForFucksSake )

Edinburgh plans to merge buses and trams in major shake-up of public transport

(tags:Edinburgh transport buses trams )

The Seven Billion Habits of Highly Effective Robots (a short story)

(tags:robots funny war short_story scifi )

When Chaos Leads to Comedy: How The Emperor's New Groove was made (one of my favourite Disney movies)

(tags:Disney business movies history )

What we can learn from sexologists about persuading people to wear masks

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1279449964020719622.html
(tags:pandemic sex condoms )

A 'Viral' New Bird Song in Canada Is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune

(tags:music birds memetics USA )

Comments

Re: Buses

[danieldwilliam]

There are certainly a number of bus routes which compete more or less with the tram. And as and when the tram network is extended there will be some more.

And I guess if you are removing the handful of routes impacted by the tram-bus duplication then it makes sense to rewiew the whole network. Particularly in the light of the likely rapid growth in Edinburgh's population and whatever the impact from coronavirus is.

The main problem that I can see is the capacity issue coming through Princes Street and the roads parallel. Removing some services that the tram handles would help and some more point to point services that don't use Princes Street as the hub for hub and spoke system.

I was a bit underwheamed by the actual content of the announcement which didn't seem to establish much in the way of principles or details for the review. I guess early days and the key message is stand by for big changes.