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It's hard to agree with you without an effective counterexample. How many lives have been saved, improved, or created by the staggering economic benefits of a c
by darkerside 6y ago
It's hard to agree with you without an effective counterexample. How many lives have been saved, improved, or created by the staggering economic benefits of a car based economy?
- tonyedgecombe 6y agoMy guess is the economy would have grown but just in a different direction. Singapore has similar GDP per capita to the US but about a fifth of the number of cars. Most of Europe is at half the number in the US.
- darkerside 6y agoAnd how much of that growth was on the back of the US consumer economy?
- tonyedgecombe 6y agoThe bulk of Singapore's trade is in Asia, America isn't as economically important as it used to be.
- darkerside 6y agoEmphasis on used to be, as in it used to be and was critically important in bootstrapping that economy.
- Tiktaalik 6y agoIt's not even really that hypothetical. Oslo has gotten down to zero cyclist and pedestrian fatalities in 2019. https://www.bicycling.com/news/a30433288/oslo-vision-zero-goal-2019/ https://www.bicycling.com/news/a30433288/oslo-vision-zero-go...