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Congestion is caused by cars, not the roads. Carbrain is a real thing.
by globular-toast 2y ago
Congestion is caused by cars, not the roads. Carbrain is a real thing.
- hulitu 2y ago> Congestion is caused by cars, not the roads. Carbrain is a real thing. Always "the other" are to blame. And talking about "Carbrain": people are "thought" in school to not be interested about how things work. And this is the result.
- DemocracyFTW2 2y agoThere being too many cars is a fact, there being too much money being spent to built infrastructure for cars only to the detriment of alternatives—rail, busses, bikes—is also a fact. Blaming cars is not blaming the 'other', it is pointing at the culprit.
- Shaanie 2y agoI believe you may be conflating opinion with fact, unless you add some qualifier like "based on potential throughput" or some such.
- DemocracyFTW2 2y agoHow many more decades of forced-to-own-a-car policy do you need? How many more suburban and rural areas in Europe and the US that had at some point decent public transport that they don't have now do you need? How many more kilometers of noisy highways cutting through the landscape and the urban space do you need? How many price hikes in public transport paired with impoverished services do you need? How many tens of thousands more miles of disused railroad tracks do you need before opinion becomes fact?
- globular-toast 2y agoIt's not "the other". I own a car and drive it regularly. My WV Golf (which is basically a "small car" nowadays) is huge and unwieldy. It uses up more space than my office, it doesn't respond to "excuse me" and it can't even move sideways. When I place it on a road it blocks that road. People don't block roads.
- okr 2y agoBikes block bike lanes. Or people block sidewalks. Cars block roads. Just the amount matters.
- globular-toast 2y agoSquirrels block everything. Just the amount matters. The fact is if you travel around anywhere you will not be blocked by people or bikes. This is a car problem. Or, rather, it should be their problem but becomes everyone's problem.
- okr 2y agoIn train stations i am constantly blocked by people. Or subway stations. Or even in these metal boxes, oh my god, i chose my own metal box anytime of this congestion. ;)