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I’m another car hater. Living in London. Cars are everywhere. They park on the sidewalks. In some places you can’t even walk because the cars cover the entire s
by nvarsj 7y ago
I’m another car hater. Living in London. Cars are everywhere. They park on the sidewalks. In some places you can’t even walk because the cars cover the entire sidewalk. Hammersmith bridge has closed due to constant, heavy truck traffic. Cars idle outside of schools in traffic all day as the kids play outside. Zebra crossings are incredibly dangerous as cars ignore them. Parents are afraid to let their kids go out and play due to the car traffic. I could go on and on. Dense urban cities are simply no place for cars.
- msclrhd 7y agoOne of the things I hate is when traffic ignores padestrian crossing indicators, including the ones with traffic lights, when traffic is backed up.
- nvarsj 7y agoYeah exactly. I’ve had a couple close calls with cars going right through zebra crossings where they had no visibility due to traffic. I’m extremely careful now but it’s still scary. It’s unfortunate that throughput is optimised over safety - otherwise these crossings on busy roads would all have traffic lights. There were nearly 1400 serious injuries to pedestrians in 2017, 250 of which were children [1]. That means life altering injuries, like losing a limb. If you compound that with the health effects of air pollution, the only conclusion is that cars are disastrous in cities. Worse, most of these cars aren’t local and the majority of locals take public transit. So it’s a minority of people inflicting their personal convenience on everyone else. If you complain about this in public, you are seen as a crazy person. 1. http://content.tfl.gov.uk/casualties-in-greater-london-2017.pdf http://content.tfl.gov.uk/casualties-in-greater-london-2017....