Most of them it’s probably still not needed.
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T00l_shed@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoAnd for those who it’s absolutely needed, just fuck them I guess?
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Linktank@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Maybe you haven’t noticed the infrastructure in America. Try doing that some time.
return2ozma@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I live in the LA area. By car, 45 minutes to work. By bus, 3 buses and 4 hours one way.
the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
In my city, if I want to arrive at my office at 8AM, I need to leave my apartment by car at 7:45. If I want to be within a block or so of my office by that same time, I need to leave my apartment at 6:15 to find a bus stop and ride on three different buses. Getting home by bus after ending my shift at 5:30 (I work 9 hour shifts and get every other Friday off), I would get home about 7:15.
Consider that I’m paid roughly $35 an hour pre-tax. If I do this every day for a month, the time this costs me would be equivalent to more than a two week paycheck.
Why would I take the bus?
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
If you have 15min drive to office, that would be ~15-45min with bicycle and save you a good bunch yearly if you want to put it that way
InternetUser2012@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
I have zero interest in riding a bus for the same reason and I’ll add that I’d rather not sit in a bus with a bunch of other people. Hard pass.
Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Car manufacturers have lobbied to make America only accessible by car. As a consequence, you now have no sensible choice but to drive everywhere. Imagine if gas prices were to double tomorrow. What would you do?
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I couldn’t do public transit like that. My anxiety wouldn’t let me. The amount of sick people crammed into busses and trains like that. It makes me start to panic. Like in Japan where they force you in an over packed train…I get for many people it’s NBD but I couldn’t do it.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
It’s amazing how car dependency is so ingrained that it induces agoraphobia, anxiety, and mental illness.
grue@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
How is it anybody else’s fault that you chose to live stupidly far from your job?
return2ozma@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
If I moved closer to my work, my rent would increase about $800+
smokin_shinobi@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Who were they trying to blame?? They are just saying for their situation they need a car to survive.
Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
America was bulldozed for the car, and now the bill is coming due.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
In a sense that there needs to be a way to show that the status quo of only maintaining/expanding car infrastructure and providing nothing else as viable alternative is a dead one. Ridiculous insurance increases is part of that.
Fixed route and Accessible buses are possible even in smaller cities like Missoula, MT, population 70k, which provides fare-free transit service to its residents. In bigger cities, mass transit, urban and interurban rail needs to be explored and expanded today, else these problems will only get worse with no end in sight.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Sure, but that doesn’t mean that those who have no other choice should be punished.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Nobody is being punished. They’re still not paying the actual cost of car dependency.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Cagers? How so? Having my own space means I’m a “cager?”