[ajross]

I don't know what the argument here is. Obviously you don't want to be sucking down diesel exhaust, and I don't believe I set a stake down on "diesel is good for you".

My point was that, on balance, riding in a bike behind a diesel bus is less toxic than riding behind the train of 10+ cars it replaced (or really that riding in a city filled with single passenger vehicles is less healthy than one inhabited by diesel bus riders.

Get folks out of their cars. Then worry about what kind of buses they ride.

[martythemaniak]

You seem fixated on cars emitting stuff. Riding behind any vehicle that burns and releases any fossil fuel sucks, and all those vehicles should be replaced. In fact cars are quite a bit ahead of busses.

[hollerith]

My argument is that maybe not for you, but for many people the exhaust from one diesel bus is worse than the exhaust from 10 or 20 gasoline / petrol cars. The article I linked to makes no mention of any kind of pollution except for diesel exhaust.

(In California, where I live, the vast majority of cars are gasoline / petrol cars.)

[ajross]

So... you're genuinely advocating against the use of public transit? Seriously?

[hollerith]

No, I don't.

[cr1895]

Public transit isn't limited to diesel-powered buses.