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Because everyone in Manhattan is like you; a young, perhaps single, with no kids; especially not many, and none with special needs, who doesn't need to routinel
by michaelcampbell 8y ago
Because everyone in Manhattan is like you; a young, perhaps single, with no kids; especially not many, and none with special needs, who doesn't need to routinely carry or cart anything around.
- hatchnyc 8y agoPeople were living in cities for many years before cars were invented, presumably at least some of them had children and were not young. Hell, people still live in modern cities around the world outside of the United States where car ownership rates are extremely low.
- casefields 8y agoAnd people used to die from infection before antibiotics. What's your point?
- DFHippie 8y agoI think you get the point. We have an existence proof that people don't need cars to live in cities. We don't need everything in the past to have been better than everything in the present for the logic to work. (People aren't driving cars to avoid infection.)
- bradleyjg 8y agoWhere are you parking and how are you getting from wherever you park to where you live or a shopping or whatever? It seems to me some of these arguments prove too much. If you are rich enough to pay for convenient parking garages everywhere you want to go, you are rich enough to pay a congestion charge. And if you aren’t then how does a private car solve the problems you are pointing out?