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Used to live in country Australia, and there were no buses, trams, trains or even sidewalks. It’s 400km to the next town and without a car you are literally stranded.

I’m all about public transport if it’s available, but without choices I’m forced to use the only available option.

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SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yeah, you should be in fuck cars then, coz you deserve better pubic infrastructure

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- Noite_Etion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Used to be, but when I tried to explain my (old) predicament looking for support/alternatives a lot of people just assumed I was some car lover. Yes it’s about better public transportation for all and I honestly want that. But a lot of their suggestions weren’t that realistic for rural Australians.
  
  Central Australia is one of the least population dense places in the world and there is too much space, not enough people and the cost of setting up a train/bus network would be astronomical; especially if you look at the cost per person, both economically and environmentally.
  
  Please understand that I really am not trying to start an argument, I am open to realistic alternatives, and want better forms of transportation everywhere. But I just hate being piled in with car nuts just because I disagree that adding more buses in central Aus would help at all. So, I just stopped going to fuck cars after a while.
  
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  - SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Aah, yes, that does happen. I personally think it’s a result of trying to apply their lived experience to a place so separate from theirs it might as well be a different continent (/j)
    
    It’s an issue with the whole internet tbh, we as a society might not be as used to a global world as we’d like and that creates friction and troubles even when we agree on the larger point.
    
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    Noite_Etion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Thanks for hearing me out and understanding.
    
    Maybe there isn’t a perfect solution, but I want to have the conversation regardless as it’s shining a light on a real problem that needs to be resolved. I just hate being disregarded as some car lover due to the lack of understanding and assumptions. I might try fuck cars again in hopes that other are like yourself.
    
    Have a good one mate.
    
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