• rbn@sopuli.xyz
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    11 hours ago

    So your alternative would be that ambulances should no longer use cars? From my perspective all kind of emergency services such as fire department, law enforcement, ambulances should be the very last cars we get rid of as a society. They have to be fast and they need to transport a lot of stuff and people.

      • Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 hour ago

        Any vehicle large enough to carry the necessary equipment and people for emergency services is going to be dangerous to pedestrians. Not sure what you’re trying to prove here.

        • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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          8 minutes ago

          Tell me youve never been in another country without telling me youve never been in another country.

          Ambulances and firetrucks in Europe and Asia are smaller than most american pickup trucks.

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        5 hours ago

        Fun fact, many if not most of those ambulances are made in Canada, and not the USA.

      • FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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        8 hours ago

        The rest of the world often also builds better infrastructure, like a protected bike lane, to signifcantly reduce the conflicts between cars and not cars.

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          2 hours ago

          Most countries that do that are also significantly smaller lol

          • FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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            1 hour ago

            The size of a country shouldn’t impact urban areas that much. Cyclists aren’t biking from california to florida on a daily basis, they are biking from their home to their job, gym, or groccery store. Your country is not too big for bike lanes, you’re city planners are just wastefull.

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              32 minutes ago

              Oh I don’t disagree, just a fair point, it wouldnt make any sense in rural areas, which is 97% of the USA landmass lol

        • bstix@feddit.dk
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          4 hours ago

          A bike lane would’ve helped. If there wasn’t one, I can see a good reason for whatever the fuck really happened here.

          If there had been a bike lane, he could/would have stayed there behind the stopping line acknowledging the right of the ambulance to go first, but without one…I can see someone in panic trying to get out of the way and then getting run over regardless of where he was positioned.