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Car-brain be strong. You gotta give it to the auto-makers. Probably the greatest propagandists of the modern world. The fact is that cars make places suck. Th
by Affric 3y ago
Car-brain be strong.
You gotta give it to the auto-makers. Probably the greatest propagandists of the modern world.
The fact is that cars make places suck. They are dangerous to other road users, the roads built for them create dangerous microclimates, monopolise what was once shared infrastructure, and they enable evils such as the supermarket.
Cars are like guns in the states but worse.
- lelandbatey 3y agoI think you may have misinterpreted what the person above you said. I think the person above you is actually not as car brained as you think. I read their suggestion not as "everyone should use a car to get everywhere" but instead as: > Cars can't safely be on streets with pedestrians, so we probably shouldn't allow cars onto roads where pedestrians could walk. Instead the only place where cars should be allowed are roads meant for long-distance driving, like interstates, as that's the environment where a cars advantages shine. Once off of an interstate, you gotta park that car in a dedicated car-storage facility and then walk or use public transit to get around. If you want to drive a car, then "walk or take a tram to your parked car if you need to drive it to the next town."
- thfuran 3y agoThey were referring to the GP and generally agreeing with the person they replied to.
- currymj 3y agoyou lost me with the supermarket... lots of people in NYC walk or take the subway to supermarkets that have little/no parking... people like a big store where all the food is in one place.
- Affric 3y agoHere supermarkets are associated with large car parks.
- munk-a 3y agoUp here in Vancouver we have a Costco that's in the middle of downtown and trivially subway accessible - it also has a parking structure and Costco in particular is a rather difficult shop to do on foot... but grocery stores with a wide variety are still useful to make trips on foot to if you only need niche ingredients and can pick up the bulk of your food at veggie markets and butchers.