Our children are victims of road violence. We need to talk about the deadly norms of car use

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• Hotdogman@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Taps big brain: get rid of the kids and no more child road deaths.

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  • bilboswaggings@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But often the people buying huge trucks are also against abortion

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    • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well if you abort the fetuses then there’s no children to run over with your F150.

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• abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “We could reduce the speed limits for cars to be closer to the average speeds of walking (6 kilometres per hour”

  Geezus christ. I’m guessing the author has no idea what it’s like to be a parent.

  Here’s a hint: kids need to go places. Public transport cannot get you to those places. Also, parents need to work (both of them) or else the kids don’t eat. As a parent I’m flat out busy from sunrise to midnight, and they want me to take the 1 hour I spend commuting each day and expand it to five hours. That doesn’t work.

  Four hours is how much commuting I do when I take public transport (which is very rare, because five hours).

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  • Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Your list of barriers to not using a car are all a result of poor urban planning which is rife in the majority of our cities. If we had stopped the sprawl 30 years ago then car dependence could have been mitigated.

    Guess I’m one of the lucky ones in that I can walk kids to school and daycare (less than 1km) then cycle to work easily (less than 10km).

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    • abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Guess I’m one of the lucky ones in that I can walk kids to school and daycare (less than 1km) then cycle to work easily (less than 10km).

      Yeah our local daycare centre isn’t well run and unfortunately my partner and I don’t work close to each other so… we live about half way between. Which is about a 70 minute ride on a bicycle (I do it, when I have time, but that’s not often… normally it’s a motorbike).

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • tslnox@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wait, what? They are absolutely right.

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  • arran4@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Would you support public transport improvements?

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The user here is a known car-brained troll. They have a long history of opposing better urban planning.

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    • abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Of course I’d support better public transport.

      But I’m not really sure what form that would take? The bus from my house to the childcare centre obviously drops us off there when the bus is scheduled to do so, which means I will always face the longest possible wait for the next bus to come by.

      And it’s pretty normal for public transport to go from the outskirts to the CBD, and if you’re not going to the CBD then you’ll need to go there on the way then take another bus out of the inner city.

      I could live in the CBD… then the busses would be great - but I can’t afford that.

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• surreptitiouswalk@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  On a completely unrelated note, I was scrolling down the article and saw a big X and clicked it thinking it was a popup or ad and hit it out of habit, but it was actually the embedded tweet.

  Another reason why the X rebrand is dumb.

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• Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When I was a courier, I would plan my route to avoid school zones. In those occasions when I did have to travel past a school between the hours of 2:30 and 4:00pm, I would be a model driver, a safe and legal speed and always with an eye out for unpredictable pedestrians and other road users.

  The biggest hazard at that time of day were the parents who were either picking up their little turds, or parents on the way to a different school speeding through school zones because they had one too many day drinks and lost track of time.

  I noticed that the students who walked to and from school by themselves or with an older sibling were always careful, road smart and safe.

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  • unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s a school zone on my way home with a slow vehicles lane. I always stay in the “fast” lane and do the speed limit. It pisses people off, regularly attract a colourful reaction. People who speed through school zones are the scummiest of the scum out there

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• LineNoise@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is a deeply, deeply stupid article.

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is a deeply, deeply stupid comment.

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  • talivision@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    why?

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• Death2Litterers@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ban all cars.

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  • blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’d pretty much have to have bumper to bumper buses though to replace them in order to cover all the journey combinations to happen in a timely manor.

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