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Originally Posted by Djeffery
Each of those lamp post charging stations would be a potential revenue generator. Convenient charging is a drawback for some people to switch to EV's. I know you are one track minded that cars should just disappear, but they aren't going to and lowering emissions is also important.
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Los Angeles’s own evaluation of its street-light charging program says that installation, vandalism and replacement costs “limit the potential to reach revenue positivity” for the city. If you have a single audited municipal ledger showing lamppost chargers that have paid for themselves—let alone turned a profit—post it.
Calling me “one-track-minded that cars should just disappear” dodges the argument. I never proposed banning cars; I pointed out that, dollar-for-dollar, protected bike lanes move more people, cut more emissions and cost the city far less than wiring every light-standard for private charging.
The real bottleneck for EV uptake in London isn’t curbside sockets, it’s condo boards and landlords blocking residents from installing chargers where they actually park. Pretending a lamp-post six houses away solves that is a red-herring.
If someone can afford a new EV, they can budget for charging it. Handing them taxpayer-funded infrastructure while bus riders and cyclists still dodge potholes is backwards fiscal logic.
Until you can show hard numbers that lamp-post chargers return more to the city than they cost, the “revenue generator” claim is fictional. Drop the ad-hominem and bring data.
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Originally Posted by Djeffery
I know you are one track minded
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Have you always gotten upset and hurled insults when people disagree with you, or did that behaviour appear in grade school? Either way, it's not constructive and an apology is in order.
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