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Sorry but your posts sounds like a well rehearsed cliche you pulled out rather than a response to my comment. I intentionally cited an example of someone havin

Sorry but your posts sounds like a well rehearsed cliche you pulled out rather than a response to my comment. I intentionally cited an example of someone having access to great density and transit (NYC) but making a different choice. The Toyota motor corporation doesn't seem to be in the mix on my decision here. Do you have something to elaborate here? As for "especially in the US..." part, really? On simple Googling, seems like France has over 80% household rate of car ownership, and Japan has something close to 80% (two random countries I pulled) so while US is obviously higher, it doesn't seem like an obviously US phenomenon. I may be off on what you are trying to say here but in my defense you haven't actually articulated an argument.

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> I intentionally cited an example of someone having access to great density and transit (NYC) but making a different choice ...Did you? I read "you can live in NYC car-free, but many (most?) people move out to the burbs once they have a family", which is not that. It is a claim which ignores: 1. the fact that "many" vs "most" can be colossal - "many" could be 1%. 2. housing being cheaper in the suburbs, which is pretty important for people raising children on a budget Regarding car ownership... that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the auto industry's lobbying to criminalize pedestrianism (jaywalking is a crime invented to sell cars), to rip out existing transit infrastructure, to block the development of new transit infrastructure (this still happens today lol), to inundate and normalize the idea of car = freedom (even though it's the opposite for day-to-day use) to the public so that we forget we even used to have public transit, to lobby for zoning laws that literally outlaw any kind of city planning that makes it possible to survive without a car in almost the entire continent.

digging 3y ago

> I intentionally cited an example of someone having access to great density and transit (NYC) but making a different choice ...Did you? I read "you can live in NYC car-free, but many (most?) people move out to the burbs once they have a family", which is not that. It is a claim which ignores: 1. the fact that "many" vs "most" can be colossal - "many" could be 1%. 2. housing being cheaper in the suburbs, which is pretty important for people raising children on a budget Regarding car ownership... that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the auto industry's lobbying to criminalize pedestrianism (jaywalking is a crime invented to sell cars), to rip out existing transit infrastructure, to block the development of new transit infrastructure (this still happens today lol), to inundate and normalize the idea of car = freedom (even though it's the opposite for day-to-day use) to the public so that we forget we even used to have public transit, to lobby for zoning laws that literally outlaw any kind of city planning that makes it possible to survive without a car in almost the entire continent.