Sometimes on errands or whatever when I get out of my car I kind of disassociate for a minute and will look out at the achres of parking lot, trying to imagine what might have been here once, what could have been here if things were different? Then I snap out of my trance and continue my tasks just feeling a bit more melancholy than I was
I’d appreciate it if the user who donwvoted this post could expand his opinion on this subject thus contributing to the conversation.
Tax dollar usage is the main excuse why people in my state have been protesting the rail. I guess sitting in traffic for 2 hours to and from work is preferred.
I think its because they don’t see how it will benefit them specifically.
Yeah. A common argument against bike lanes in my city is that “nobody bikes”, and people don’t understand that nobody bikes because we have to bike alongside their murder boxes.
Also, bikes generally don’t take up a lot of space. A bike lane can be cooking in passenger-miles/hr and look pretty empty compared to urban gridlock in the car lanes.
A very apt analogy you can reply with is this.
Nobody swims across this river to the other side. Therefore we should NOT throw away money by building a bridge. Because there is no demand.
Considering being a massive fan of cars, I’m so glad I live in Scotland. You can walk pretty much anywhere, Very cheap trams for some cities, fantastic bus service and the North Coast 500. People and cars can co-exist but the way some places seem to be doing it is not exactly brilliant.
Scotland sounds nice. How is the bike infrastructure?
Some people argue that there’s too many bikes lanes, so I’d say it’s quite good haha! There’s also some amazing mountain bike trails in Scotland so there’s something for everyone, bikewise.
This shit is cringe as fuck. Looks like it was made by a naive 16 year old.
We are not in high school anymore Kevin… saying something is “cringe” doesn’t make you sound cool nor invalidates the other person’s argument, lmao.
Comment like yours give me hope. This proves that Lemmy has grown beyond techies and has spread among “regulars”.
lol do you think techies hate cars?
Yeah but I am way more comfortable in my car, it goes exactly where I want it and I have complete control over the accessibility soooooooo
This is very common points that come up on this topic, and they are reasonable really, but let me disagree for the following reasons:
I am way more comfortable in my car
This one is obviously very personal, so agreeing or disagreeing makes no sense. We can agree however that when you drive you have to only focus on the road; some people sure enjoy staring at the asphalt or at the ass of the car in front of them while they drive in traffic. Meanwhile on transport one can read, watch a video or even browse feddit posts while a professional driver is paid to do the annoying repetitive part for you. Also when you get on transit the air is already conditioned, meanwhile when you get in your car you left in the parking lot under the sun you enjoy your ass and hands burning while your face freezes to the ac at the max power trying to cool down your box of plastic that turned into a oven.
it goes exactly where I want it and I have complete control over the accessibility
Yeah, meanwhile the transit company of my city calls me every morning and tells me the exact places I am allowed to go today. I definitely don’t take whatever line i need to take to go wherever i need or want to be. Jokes aside, if you have bad/non existent public transport in your area your point is understandable. That is literally what we advocate for though, more public transport where there isn’t. Cherry on top, I actually have a car and a licence, I just almost never need to use it, because my city has decent (far from perfect, but) transit.
Bigger roads just leads to more people driving and more traffic, whereas more people using public transport leaves more space for those who insist on travelling with their living room to move unhindered.
