It adds: “Give yourself the best chance of avoiding delays by checking road conditions if driving, or bus and train timetables, amending your travel plans if necessary.”
This has been echoed by the RAC, which explained that red extreme heat warnings are incredibly rare, and called on Britons to take them seriously.
Data from the organisation states that breakdown volumes are expected to be around 20 per cent higher today than what’s normal for a Monday in late June.
I literally just searched for it and trivially found them.
They’re specifically saying vehicles without air conditioning, while also discussing worsening road conditions, increased risk of breakdown, and a general need to limit travel.
They issue the warnings for trains and not cars because train rails expand in the heat, meaning service cancellation is more likely and deferring optional travel reduces stress on the system.
Any time there is stress on a transit system they advise people to skip using it if necessary.
Your position is not hard to understand. It’s just one-sided because you’re only considering the downsides of one method, and not considering what the same situation looks like for the other.
They’re specifically saying vehicles without air conditioning,
Exactly. They are talking about driving a car without AC. The rail one is talking about taking a train with AC.
Again, I’m not comparing the two modes of transportation and all their aspects. I’m not even saying that trains are bad and cars are better. I just pointed out that being stuck in a train during a heatwave is a terrible experience. It does happen and is a real concern for people in Spain. I personally know claustrophobic people that avoid trains for that reason and prefer to take a bus. The big difference for them is that they can get out of a broken bus while you can’t just leave the train whenever you want. Many people don’t like being stuck.
Those are all simple facts but people here are so adamant that trains are better in every way they can’t accept them. They will instead argue that you can in fact open windows and doors in a train (you can’t) or start talking about the total repair time of a car (irrelevant).
It’s not exactly irrelevant when you brought up repair time and alternative transportation.
I feel like you didn’t read your own article. The AC on the train doesn’t really factor into their warning.
They advised people to avoid the train to avoid congestion of the system because trains travel slower when the rails heat up.
They advised people to defer car travel because roads will be more congested due to heat causing mechanical issues in car engines. They also said if you don’t have ac that it could be actively dangerous.
Listing a big list of cons for one and then saying the other one doesn’t have them really makes it seem like a comparison, particularly when it doesn’t seem like an equally applied standard.
Listing a big list of cons for one and then saying the other one doesn’t have them really makes it seem like a comparison, particularly when it doesn’t seem like an equally applied standard.
Ok, you’re right. Whatever you’re trying to say about cars vs trains is true. Statistically they are equally dangerous during heatwaves. Shit, let’s even say cars are more dangerous. And take longer to repair. And are more expensive. You can even say trains never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down. I don’t really care about all this. We only started talking about it all because people like you are not able to accept that being stuck in a hot train is a shitty experience. You can’t admit that while you can exit a car you can’t exit a train whenever you want. You have to talk about everything else because for some reason this simple fact ruins your world view. I don’t know why and, frankly, I don’t care.
If you don’t care, why are you putting so much effort into arguing it and getting so defensive?
You’re acting like no one is understanding or accepting what you’re saying. I responded to you saying a train malfunction leaves you stranded in the middle of nowhere for hours, and a car malfunction doesn’t. Which is a a preposterous statement.
You then followed up with an article about skipping optional travel due to possible delays and capacity issues and took that as evidence that the air conditioning was the problem.
You haven’t shattered my world view, you’ve made a shitty argument and then gotten sad when people said it was shitty.
You’re acting like no one is understanding or accepting what you’re saying.
Because obviously no one is. Even you’re still talking about “being stranded” while I very clearly explained I’m talking about not being able to exit the train. For some reason you can’t admit that people get stuck on trains.
You haven’t shattered my world view, you’ve made a shitty argument and then gotten sad when people said it was shitty.
The only thing that made me sad is realizing how many people don’t know how trains work.
https://www.gbnews.com/lifestyle/cars/weather-air-con-postpone-car-journeys-warning
I literally just searched for it and trivially found them.
They’re specifically saying vehicles without air conditioning, while also discussing worsening road conditions, increased risk of breakdown, and a general need to limit travel.
They issue the warnings for trains and not cars because train rails expand in the heat, meaning service cancellation is more likely and deferring optional travel reduces stress on the system.
Any time there is stress on a transit system they advise people to skip using it if necessary.
Your position is not hard to understand. It’s just one-sided because you’re only considering the downsides of one method, and not considering what the same situation looks like for the other.
Exactly. They are talking about driving a car without AC. The rail one is talking about taking a train with AC.
Again, I’m not comparing the two modes of transportation and all their aspects. I’m not even saying that trains are bad and cars are better. I just pointed out that being stuck in a train during a heatwave is a terrible experience. It does happen and is a real concern for people in Spain. I personally know claustrophobic people that avoid trains for that reason and prefer to take a bus. The big difference for them is that they can get out of a broken bus while you can’t just leave the train whenever you want. Many people don’t like being stuck.
Those are all simple facts but people here are so adamant that trains are better in every way they can’t accept them. They will instead argue that you can in fact open windows and doors in a train (you can’t) or start talking about the total repair time of a car (irrelevant).
It’s not exactly irrelevant when you brought up repair time and alternative transportation.
I feel like you didn’t read your own article. The AC on the train doesn’t really factor into their warning.
They advised people to avoid the train to avoid congestion of the system because trains travel slower when the rails heat up.
They advised people to defer car travel because roads will be more congested due to heat causing mechanical issues in car engines. They also said if you don’t have ac that it could be actively dangerous.
Listing a big list of cons for one and then saying the other one doesn’t have them really makes it seem like a comparison, particularly when it doesn’t seem like an equally applied standard.
Ok, you’re right. Whatever you’re trying to say about cars vs trains is true. Statistically they are equally dangerous during heatwaves. Shit, let’s even say cars are more dangerous. And take longer to repair. And are more expensive. You can even say trains never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down. I don’t really care about all this. We only started talking about it all because people like you are not able to accept that being stuck in a hot train is a shitty experience. You can’t admit that while you can exit a car you can’t exit a train whenever you want. You have to talk about everything else because for some reason this simple fact ruins your world view. I don’t know why and, frankly, I don’t care.
If you don’t care, why are you putting so much effort into arguing it and getting so defensive?
You’re acting like no one is understanding or accepting what you’re saying. I responded to you saying a train malfunction leaves you stranded in the middle of nowhere for hours, and a car malfunction doesn’t. Which is a a preposterous statement.
You then followed up with an article about skipping optional travel due to possible delays and capacity issues and took that as evidence that the air conditioning was the problem.
You haven’t shattered my world view, you’ve made a shitty argument and then gotten sad when people said it was shitty.
Because obviously no one is. Even you’re still talking about “being stranded” while I very clearly explained I’m talking about not being able to exit the train. For some reason you can’t admit that people get stuck on trains.
The only thing that made me sad is realizing how many people don’t know how trains work.