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I think it might be an American thing - at least the polarization part. Over here in Poland some of my friends and relatives switched to scooters(125cc typical
by Tade0 4y ago
I think it might be an American thing - at least the polarization part.
Over here in Poland some of my friends and relatives switched to scooters(125cc typically) when fuel prices spiked and are largely happy with the result - especially this one guy who used to daily a Nissan Pathfinder. Of course this becomes difficult in winter and inclement weather conditions, but I also see fewer cyclists then.
People need to realize that even the Dutch generally have cars and drive. It all works because they thought and fought hard to get to this point.
- eythian 4y ago> People need to realize that even the Dutch generally have cars and drive. It depends a lot where you are. Live in a major city and very few people have cars, they're expensive and spend a lot of time just sitting around taking up space and money. Go to a less dense area and they're a lot more common. Also, pay-by-the-minute or whatever car rentals aren't uncommon for when people need them but don't want to actually own one.
- Tade0 4y ago> It depends a lot where you are. Of course it does because it's like that everywhere in Europe. I wouldn't expect many e.g. Parisians to own cars. My point was that there's a whole spectrum of lifestyles with rational choices behind them and you can't just brush over that with a simplistic solutions like "ban cars".
- kristofferR 4y agoThat's one of the biggest strawmens I've ever seen. Nobody is saying that they want to ban cars outright, they want to ban cars in city centers, in order to make them walkable.