As an American, I don’t find those groups ridiculous at all - they are incredibly sane, actually. They can imagine what our world would look like if we reduced our reliance and dependency on cars and I believe there is a lot of value in that.
I believe that we need high-speed rail for freight and passengers in the US. A nationwide push would create a lot of jobs and tractor-trailers would likely be vastly be reduced on our roadways, which I’d consider to be a big win.
This may seem like a bad deal for truckers, but their jobs are already threatened (in some part) due to self-driving tractor-trailers.
I lived in Arizona with no car until I was 25 and it was pretty hard to get by even here with 340ish days of sunshine. Everything in the US is incredibly spaced out, and if you’re in any suburban place, there simply aren’t bike racks anywhere. In rural NH where I lived, there was nowhere fun to ride to, and nowhere to lock up even if I wanted to go do errands close enough for me to do on bicycle. The US, in many places, needs a page 1 rewrite of its public infrastructure.
One of the many reasons why those “fuck cars” groups are so ridiculous to many Americans.
It sucks, but cars are pretty much mandatory here.
As an American, I don’t find those groups ridiculous at all - they are incredibly sane, actually. They can imagine what our world would look like if we reduced our reliance and dependency on cars and I believe there is a lot of value in that.
I believe that we need high-speed rail for freight and passengers in the US. A nationwide push would create a lot of jobs and tractor-trailers would likely be vastly be reduced on our roadways, which I’d consider to be a big win.
This may seem like a bad deal for truckers, but their jobs are already threatened (in some part) due to self-driving tractor-trailers.
Trucking jobs should never be considered universally essential anyway. Trucking should be a stopgap until public infrastructure can improve.
I agree.
I’d be happy if the people that decide road layouts were at the very least people that got passing marks in elementary school.
instead we get signs like:
“die if you’re a cyclist”
I lived in Arizona with no car until I was 25 and it was pretty hard to get by even here with 340ish days of sunshine. Everything in the US is incredibly spaced out, and if you’re in any suburban place, there simply aren’t bike racks anywhere. In rural NH where I lived, there was nowhere fun to ride to, and nowhere to lock up even if I wanted to go do errands close enough for me to do on bicycle. The US, in many places, needs a page 1 rewrite of its public infrastructure.