Building out transit and infrastructure takes time. In the meanwhile, people still have to get places.
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technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month agoCar dependency is a dead end. It’s inherently wasteful, privileged, and unsustainable. I would much rather have free, extensive, public transit and safe infrastructure for pedestrians, bikes, and light EVs.
nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 month ago
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 month ago
And isn’t necessarily the best approach
laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I don’t think anyone is suggesting otherwise, but continuing to say that as a reason not to work towards that goal makes no sense
firadin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Great, lmk when there’s a regular train from Boston to my office in Boxborough, which currently requires it’s residents to drop off their own trash at the facility. I’m sure that’ll be frequent and efficient right?
InternetUser2012@midwest.social 1 month ago
Tell us you don’t live in the US without telling us you don 't live in the US.
Eccitaze@yiffit.net 1 month ago
Or anywhere relatively rural. I just got home from a long weekend in rural Minnesota/Wisconsin, and there’s literally no viable way to run public transit out there in a manner that wouldn’t either be so restrictive as to be useless, or would lose so much money it would be first on the block for service cuts (and therefore become useless). I’m talking “town of 600 residents, most people live on unincorporated county land on a farmstead, and the only grocery store in a 50 mile radius is a Dollar General” rural. Asking these folks to give up cars is an insane prospect.