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Is it? Transport is an infrastructure problem, which is controlled by policy. How many ways do you have to get to work? I have three. Bus, bike, and car. - I
by vegetablepotpie 5y ago
Is it?
Transport is an infrastructure problem, which is controlled by policy. How many ways do you have to get to work?
I have three. Bus, bike, and car.
- If I decide to ride the bus, I will walk 45 minutes to the bus stop for an express bus, which will take me to my job site, which picks me up 5:50 am and the fare costs as much as gas would for a drive there in a personal vehicle.
- If I decide to bike, there are no direct routes with a bike lane. The remaining routes have been shutdown due to construction, but cars are still afforded a lane. I either have to take very long and convoluted routes through neighborhoods or ride on a 60mph expressway with no median.
- If I drive, I have a choice of several routes of well maintained road infrastructure and I am confident that I will arrive in 30mins.
If we want to place the responsibility of vehicle GHG emissions on consumers, we need to at least stop biasing against non-car transportation options. Otherwise we’ll end up with a lot of blame, and no reductions in GHG emissions. A call to action should be placed on people who have agency over the situation (politicians) and not on people who have none.
- jeffbee 5y agoGovernment of and by the people, is the way I heard it.
- epistasis 5y agoRight, but which people? The biggest determinant of whether people can live close to their jobs in Cupertino is not the people that work there, but the tiny minority of Cupertino residents that live in Cupertino and have the time to follow the intricacies of zoning; namely the wealthy and retired, the people who typically have a lot of wealth tied up in their Cupertino real estate and benefit hugely by keeping new housing out, both economically and in their aesthetic preferences. Our system for determining who gets to have short commutes and who are damned to long, high carbon commutes, is inherently undemocratic and can not be fixed as is. We need state level regulation to overpower the greed of local entrenched interests.