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Aside from emissions, if you drive a car you are making public spaces more dangerous even of you follow the rules perfectly. Our cities and public spaces are ex
by ndnxhs 8y ago
Aside from emissions, if you drive a car you are making public spaces more dangerous even of you follow the rules perfectly. Our cities and public spaces are extremely hostile to pedestrians especially kids. Its drilled in to everyone that you have to have a constant grip of your child's hand when walking outside because they could be instantly killed for stepping in the wrong spot at the wrong time.
It also takes forever to walk anywhere because pedestrian crossings are programmed to be extremely slow as to not disrupt drivers as well as intersections often requiring 2 crossings to get to the desired location vs just one when driving.
- KozmoNau7 8y agoThe sheer amount of space that was forcefully taken from pedestrians and cyclists, in order to make room for cars is absolutely astounding once you take a critical look at it. Those 4-lane boulevards though city centers could fit generously-proportioned sidewalks and bike paths and greenery, food stalls, cafés and dedicated bus lanes (or you could move public transit underground for better space utilization). Instead they're full of gridlocked traffic, made up of countless ~1.5t lumps of steel and plastic, transporting a single occupant each.
- CalRobert 8y agoWhen people complain about cyclists on footpaths, I agree wholeheartedly. Yet, when I point out that drivers did EXACTLY this and killed everyone in their way, it's like I'm speaking Martian. Streets are for people. At least they were for all of human history until ~100 years ago.