Comment on America is fucked
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days agoIs all the same tho. All of the US is full of carbrainrot.
This isn’t cars this is people and their culture.
I am from the UK, a large city too, and we have lots of cars and incredibly busy roads where it’s standstill a lot, but cars will move out of the way for emergency vehicles, you’ll drive on the kerb if you have to.
I live 2 hours away from NYC and that’s also the case here
There is no curb on many of these streets to go onto, there are bollards to protect pedestrians preventing that.
Its a design problem combined with a congestion problem, that was the reason for the congestion relief toll.
That’s a good point and a spelling correction to boot 😂.
I did add an edit that we also have bicycles / motorcycles with paramedics if speed is of the essence and traffic is poor.
I also realise that Deansgate In Manchester City centre has now got those bollards too, but we have severely limited the cars that are allowed into the city centre and I must say it’s a lot more pleasant walking around and I say that as someone that would drive through the city centre myself on the way home from work.
Where I live, if a person on the crosswalk doesn’t move out the way of ab ambulance, it goes on the national news lol.
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
This is beyond car brain. This is the increasing amount of people simply not giving a shit about the social contract over the years coupled with cops not doing their actual jobs in favor whatever it is they do (sitting in their cars fucking around in their phones and harassing minorities?)
But you see the lack of concern for the social contract in many other aspects of american life. Asking people to wear a paper mask during a pandemic was probably the most notable recent non car example. We all know how that went. In other cultures it’s a regular practice; you simply do it as a courtesy when you have recently had a cold. In A america during a pandemic 30-40% of the population revealed themselves to be utterly pathetic toddlers that can’t handle being asked to do something by a perceived authority figure or slightly inconvenienced.