Taking away a lane for cars to create a dedicated bus lane made for faster commutes for everyone, thanks to faster, more reliable service on one of the region’s busiest bus routes.
Taking away a lane for cars to create a dedicated bus lane made for faster commutes for everyone, thanks to faster, more reliable service on one of the region’s busiest bus routes.
What made cars so central to being an American? I work from home in a rural area, and I need a car. I can’t walk to the grocery store because they built it too damned far away down a dangerous road. So what could I walk to? “Convenience” stores owned by the same companies that run the grocer except it’s all marked up for the convenience. And My employers downtown office doesn’t make business sense for the one time a month they make me drive down there, and the easiest solution, obviously, is to give me a few days notice that I’ll be in office indefinitely.
From then on there’ll be nothing more American than wasting my life on some stretch of highway with parked cars for miles in front of me, waiting to get to the same exit as everybody else, and then waiting to get through the same lights as they are, so I can get to my house that’s one street away from where they’re going.
Maybe we should critically re-examine what our parents were advertised into believing is the most American thing ever. Before the environmental collapse, please.
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Culture is as culture does. Cars shouldn’t need to be a necessity for all because some people like them. Does minimum wage afford all Americans a new car today, on top of rent? You’ve been too entrenched in justifying your expensive car loan to yourself.
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Okay then both our assumptions were wrong. Again just because cars are your hobby doesn’t mean we should design our society in a way that both assumes and forces car ownership on people. On top of the economics of every household needing at least access to one car, it is literally making our planet unlivable.
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And how many corporations force people to come downtown into offices, and either through fossil fuel emissions or tire particulate, pump carcinogens into high traffic/high population areas? If we want to reduce corporate pollution then we should plan to reduce it across the board, and not allow these real estate companies to dictate WFH.
The responsibility to transition to a sustainable world isn’t on the people. But it is the people’s responsibility to ensure their government is legislating issues like this properly. Failure to do so is letting down all future generations. This summer shows the results of 50 years of failing to face these issues head on and instead allowing profits to influence legislation. One of those influences is to force cars on people.
I understand you like your cars but I believe most people only have their cars for these reasons: to get necessities, go to work, and maybe childcare. And many can’t afford the gas to go much further. If more neighborhoods were designed to human scale, so you could walk or ride a bike to access the peoples common needs, that would make living much more affordable and sustainable for many.
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Well then, I suppose if it is CENTRAL to American identity, perhaps the climate will take that into account and bypass the USA. The solution was looking us right in the face.
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