Cars still suck even without the dependence. I live somewhere that very much isn’t car dependant but there’s still too many of them and they still make places miserable.
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KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
We’re fighting the war on car dependence.
Cars are fine but car dependance isn’t, our cities shouldn’t be built in a way that requires a car for everyday like.
Requiring that your citizens own a $10000 - $35000+ depreciating asset just to live life your life.
mondoman712@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
They are everywhere, and often park on the pavement which must be really difficult if you are trying to move about in a wheelchair and there are cars blocking everything. Public transport isn’t much better as almost no where has level boarding here either so someone needs to come over with a fucking ramp - except they probably won’t so you need to change at the next stop when someone wakes up and lets you off and then go back to the previous stop to get off where you actually wanted to.
Laser@feddit.org 3 days ago
However, if you follow that train of thought, you’ll often get to the point where you’d need to get rid of cars as we know them today.
If people weren’t depending on them, fewer would have one. And if only few people have one (they are expensive, after all), why build roads just for them? Why all this costly infrastructure that would only benefit 5% of the population? Why use everyone’s tax to fund them?
The fact that cars are built like today - basically comfort cages - is only because all this infrastructure exists. They’re not used outside of that environment. So of people don’t depend on it, they’d probably vanish in a couple of decades, at least outside of their respective niches.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
We still need roads for buses and trucks. Basically nothing is produced locally any more
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Recently saw something posted about how kids are actually cycling to school again in some parts of London where LTNs have been implemented. Reducing the number of cars makes it better for people.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Look up how the small city Houten in the Netherlands is designed. A city designed for pedestrians and cyclists. Still accessible for cars and plenty of parking spaces and roads for them. And more than 5% of inhabitants have one. You don’t need to get rid of cars to make a city walkable and cyclable and not everyone wants to live in a dense almost car-free city like Tokyo.
youtu.be/r-TuGAHR78w