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In cities in many other countries, people do those things using public transit and walking and biking and it works fine. Admittedly, it works not so fine in US
by TulliusCicero 7y ago
In cities in many other countries, people do those things using public transit and walking and biking and it works fine.
Admittedly, it works not so fine in US cities...because they were built to favor driving over every other mode. Drop an American in Munich or Tokyo and suddenly you'll find them driving a whole lot less, even if they still own a car.
- arkades 7y agoOP: “punishing personal driving penalizes people for undertaking necessary tasks using the only infrastructure reasonable in that setting.” You: “well in other settings it works. Of course, those settings have other infrastructure.” You can see why that doesn’t really add much.
- jeddy3 7y agoYour paraphrasing is really dishonest. OP never talks about any setting, only "real workers need to". In fact you both seem to ignore the setting from the article, which is major European City
- arkades 7y agoIt’s not meant to be dishonest. I take for granted that the existence of a setting is implied, insofar as people are discussing non-hypothetical commuting.
- ummonk 7y agoYes, it works in dense cities. That doesn't mean it works for everyone, as Macron found out when he tried to raise petrol taxes.